GOP on worker rights - Boeing, Boeing, gone

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Last week, 230 House Republicans voted for the the "Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act."


In truth, the bill is an act of government interference into an ongoing law enforcement case.


Rather than protect jobs, the bill actually would put jobs at risk and leave workers exposed to punitive actions by corporations trying to avoid their legal obligations.


Under the federal National Labor Relations Act of 1935, it is illegal for companies to coerce or discriminate against employees who exercise the work-related rights the law guarantees them.


Congress invested enforcement responsibility for the law in the National Labor Relations Board, an independent agency.


The new bill would strip the NLRB of the power to prevent companies from illegally shutting down facilities and/or moving operations elsewhere - including overseas - to take jobs away from workers they regard as troublesome.


http://www.chron.com/opinion/outloo...e-poster-child-for-overregulation-2184300.php
 
The immediate excuse for passing the bill is a pending NLRB case involving the commercial airplane division of the Boeing Co.


Early this year, the union that represents Boeing employees in Seattle and Portland, Ore., filed a complaint with the NLRB claiming that Boeing was shifting production of some its 787 Dreamliner airplanes to a factory in South Carolina.


The move was retribution, the union alleged, for past lawful strikes in 1977, 1989, 1995, 2005 and 2008.


Boeing denied the accusation and said the decision was based on lower production costs in South Carolina.




http://www.chron.com/opinion/outloo...e-poster-child-for-overregulation-2184300.php
 
After conducting its own investigation, the NLRB's acting general counsel concluded that Boeing had, indeed, violated the law and filed a complaint to that effect.


The evidence cited in the complaint includes published statements and audio and video recordings in which senior Boeing executives, including corporate CEO Jim McNerney and commercial aircraft division CEO Jim Albaugh, indicate that Boeing is moving production to South Carolina because of past labor actions and possible future ones.


The case now is in the hands of an administrative law judge, who held an initial round of hearings in Seattle in June.


Republicans have made the case a poster child for supposed overregulation by the federal government.


It is no such thing.



http://www.chron.com/opinion/outloo...e-poster-child-for-overregulation-2184300.php
 
By law, the NLRB is required to investigate accusations of unfair labor practices brought to it, whether by employees or employers.


It investigated the union's claims, gathered evidence, decided that Boeing had broken the law and filed a complaint.


A judge will consider the evidence and Boeing's defense and decide whether the company's actions are legal or illegal. Boeing or the union can appeal the judge's decision.


The Republicans' profound antagonism toward workers' rights is unabashed.


Rather than trying to undermine them by stealth and misdirection, the party should drop the coy posturing and introduce a bill to repeal the National Labor Relations Act.



http://www.chron.com/opinion/outloo...e-poster-child-for-overregulation-2184300.php
 
At a time with the highest unemployment, Obama is bowing down to his masters the unions, and using his stormtroopers to attack. Another prime example of the Obama administration's failure to understand why companies are outsourcing jobs or completely moving them overseas.
 
webbway said:
At a time with the highest unemployment, Obama is bowing down to his masters the unions, and using his stormtroopers to attack. Another prime example of the Obama administration's failure to understand why companies are outsourcing jobs or completely moving them overseas.
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Unfortunately, Webby, the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression of the 1930s (also precipitated by a Republican failure) occured on Reagans' watch.

Under Reagan, unemployent soared, reaching an historical high of 10.8 percent in November of 1982.

Companies outsource jobs when they have a financial incentive to do so.

If Boeing could have their planes built in China by slaves, they would, because laborers must accept the wages they're offered or starve, workers have almost no rights, and there's almost no regulation from a corrupt bureaucracy that don't give two shits about pollution or safety standards.

What's stopping them? The government you blame for all your problems, and the unions you want to destroy.

Why don't you and your pals move to Red China? You'd love it.
  • Workers have no rights.
  • Pay is low, benefits are almost non-existent,
  • Companies can do as they like as long as they pay off officials.
  • There are few regulations designed to protect workers or the environment and those aren't enforced very often.
In other words, Republican paradise.

They drink lots of tea there, and the business climate sounds like what you favor.

This is America, and we don't do things that way.


http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
 
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