The fact that Obama's National Labor Relations Board is likely to rule in favor of unions on a wide-ranging set of issues shouldn't surprise anyone. George W. Bush's Department of Labor was notorious for its anti-union stance. Turnabout is fair play -- what's left of the labor movement is firmly in the Democratic camp, and the current NLRB panel is dominated by Democrats.
Even so, last week's decision that Boeing had violated the National Labor Relations Act by moving airline production from a union plant in Washington to a nonunion plant in South Carolina seems, on the face of it, like a pretty big deal. As Steven Greenhouse reports in the New York Times, this isn't small potatoes: Boeing invested $2 billion in the South Carolina plant and hired 1,000 workers.
But if the NLRB wins its case, Boeing will have to move production back to Puget Sound! South Carolina politicians are in an uproar; Gov. Nikki Haley is demanding that Republican candidates for president immediately start making a big deal of the Obama administration's supposed union-favoritism.
As far as the NLRB is concerned, Boeing broke the law.
Boeing executives had publicly said they were making the move to avoid the kind of strikes the airplane maker had repeatedly faced in Washington; Lafe Solomon, the labor board's acting general counsel, said the company's motive constituted illegal retaliation against workers for exercising their right to strike ...
Mr. Solomon, who has worked for board members of both parties, said this case was straightforward: Boeing had retaliated against workers for exercising their federally protected right to strike. "They had a consistent message that they were doing this to punish their employees for having struck and having the power to strike in the future," he said. "I can't not issue a complaint in the face of such evidence."
Fonte/Via:Salon
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Even so, last week's decision that Boeing had violated the National Labor Relations Act by moving airline production from a union plant in Washington to a nonunion plant in South Carolina seems, on the face of it, like a pretty big deal. As Steven Greenhouse reports in the New York Times, this isn't small potatoes: Boeing invested $2 billion in the South Carolina plant and hired 1,000 workers.
But if the NLRB wins its case, Boeing will have to move production back to Puget Sound! South Carolina politicians are in an uproar; Gov. Nikki Haley is demanding that Republican candidates for president immediately start making a big deal of the Obama administration's supposed union-favoritism.
As far as the NLRB is concerned, Boeing broke the law.
Boeing executives had publicly said they were making the move to avoid the kind of strikes the airplane maker had repeatedly faced in Washington; Lafe Solomon, the labor board's acting general counsel, said the company's motive constituted illegal retaliation against workers for exercising their right to strike ...
Mr. Solomon, who has worked for board members of both parties, said this case was straightforward: Boeing had retaliated against workers for exercising their federally protected right to strike. "They had a consistent message that they were doing this to punish their employees for having struck and having the power to strike in the future," he said. "I can't not issue a complaint in the face of such evidence."
Fonte/Via:Salon
Este conteúdo divulgado neste Blog, Sempre é citado como fonte e o link de referência. O conteúdo divulgado e de Responsabilidade de:Denilson Pereira
