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Post by AztecWilliam on Apr 24, 2011 11:11:14 GMT -8
Apparently, the Obama administration thinks that the workers should run companies. Read this and ask yourself whether the government should be telling companies where they should be making their products. And ask yourself who will absorb the two billion dollar hit the article mentions. Apparently not the workers. Oh, yes, I was wrong. There would be 1,000 workers who will pay with their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/business/23labor.htmlAzWm |
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Post by Yoda on Apr 24, 2011 18:45:12 GMT -8
First of all, as a resident of Western Washington, I'm in favor of keeping all Boeing's operations here.
But I have a question for you...
You clearly have problems with the law, and I understand that. But it was passed in 1935 so why are you blaming Obama? Or are conservatives against law enforcement now days?
Maybe you'd prefer a little judicial activism to turn the law over?
Yoda out...
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Post by aztecwin on Apr 24, 2011 19:10:12 GMT -8
First of all, as a resident of Western Washington, I'm in favor of keeping all Boeing's operations here. But I have a question for you... You clearly have problems with the law, and I understand that. But it was passed in 1935 so why are you blaming Obama? Or are conservatives against law enforcement now days? Maybe you'd prefer a little judicial activism to turn the law over? Yoda out... I suggest a closer reading of the article and you will be able to see why Obama is blamed. As a stock holder in Boeing, I suggest that the company and it's shareholders were well served by the move out of Western Washington and especially King County. |
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Post by AztecWilliam on Apr 24, 2011 20:42:03 GMT -8
I am no expert on the law in question. On the other hand, I have to wonder just what reading of the law prohibits a company from making its own decision as to where it will produce airplanes.
I could see a fine, perhaps in the millions of dollars, being levied against Boeing, with the money going to union workers in the state of Washington. However, I am very much opposed to the govt. mandating that Boeing simply flush its two billion dollars down the drain and fire the 1,000 workers it has hired in South Caroline. If the govt. can do this, what is to prevent it from using some creative logic to mandate that a company may not contract with a plant in another company to manufacture its goods. Maybe Apple can be forced to set up and plant in CA to make IPhones and IPads. . . and quickly go out of business.
If you cannot see a very disturbing trend in all this you are not looking very carefully. Clearly, organized labor, which represents very, very few non-governmental workers, is collaborating with one political party to extort favors from the general economy.
AzWm
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Post by Yoda on Apr 24, 2011 21:00:46 GMT -8
I suggest a closer reading of the article and you will be able to see why Obama is blamed. As a stock holder in Boeing, I suggest that the company and it's shareholders were well served by the move out of Western Washington and especially King County. The only thing that moved out of Washington (as I recall anyway), was the home office. All the production operations remain -- including those in Renton (King County). That wasn't a labor relations issue -- again as I recall, it had more to do with being located in the central time zone. Yoda out... |
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Post by aztecwin on Apr 25, 2011 9:58:32 GMT -8
I suggest a closer reading of the article and you will be able to see why Obama is blamed. As a stock holder in Boeing, I suggest that the company and it's shareholders were well served by the move out of Western Washington and especially King County. The only thing that moved out of Washington (as I recall anyway), was the home office. All the production operations remain -- including those in Renton (King County). That wasn't a labor relations issue -- again as I recall, it had more to do with being located in the central time zone. Yoda out... That was it in the beginning. Here is more on the issue. www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/04/23/behind-the-obama-labor-boards-bashing-of-boeing-is-a-case-full-of-irony-and-union-failure/I was living in Renton Highlands at the time the initial move was being made. I think that some manufacturing went to Texas shortly after and now this Soth Carolina thing. |
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