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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHaley says she will oppose union at Boeing SC plant
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) Gov. Nikki Haley says she will fight attempts to unionize Boeings massive 787 assembly plant in North Charleston.
The Machinists union on Monday asked the National Labor Relations Board to set an election so about 2,400 production workers at the plant can decide if they want union representation.
Haley said in a statement that South Carolina companies understand the importance of taking care of their workers and that employees do not want a middle man between them and management.
She called it hypocritical that a union that several years ago opposed the South Carolina Boeing plant now says it wants to represent workers in South Carolina.
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http://www.seattletimes.com/business/haley-says-she-will-oppose-union-at-boeing-sc-plant/
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)why are governors allowed to act against unions?
" employees do not want a middle man between them and management. " IF THEY DIDNT THEY WOULDNT WANT UNION REPRESENTATION - stupid fkin .... just stay the fuck out of it
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)Involved himself in the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant vote.
They don't want unions in the south because they like keeping workers voiceless and desperate
Brigid
(17,621 posts)They want the workers poor too.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)And just why do you think they opposed it? Because of crap like this.
Takket
(21,570 posts)when the GOP launched a massive campaign of misinformation and bullying to stop that plant from forming a union. Here you have the government actively interjecting itself into the relationship of employer and employee and we are supposed to believe the GOP is the party of "limited government"? LOL Why not let their precious "free market" decide?
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)available, if possible, to warn the SC workers about the anti-union lies the Koch brothers' minions spew while this is under consideration.
Union! And Haley can get herself lost on the AT.
LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)Workers usually have to rely on information from other workers that support the union. Otherwise, information is only available from locations setup by the union on the outside. Either planned meetings or walk-ins to chat with organizers about the issues.
While the employer gets to do just about anything they want even if it is against the law.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Those of us in Right To Work (For Less) states aren't often acquainted with the details of how this happens.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)If employers understand the importance of taking care of their workers and employees don't want a middle man then she has nothing to worry about.
So she has a problem with middle men? Maybe the middle men in business should be eliminated too. She probably wants to eliminate all attorneys and arbitrators too. Why not get rid of the governors since they are the middle men between the citizens and the federal government.
She think that employees will get a fair deal if they only deal with directly with their bosses? Everyone knows that are bosses that are asses. What she is saying is that she doesn't want employees to have any clout when they talk with their bosses.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Although I don't think Haley is stupid - she's doing exactly as her paymasters want. That's how she keeps her campaign coffers funded.
But the idea that "middle men" are unnecessary is as old as union busting itself. When the workers organize themselves and hire the same professional attorneys and negotiators that bosses routinely hire, suddenly those folks are "outsiders" or "middle men" interfering in the previously one-sided process. Gov. Haley is cordially invited to butt out.
LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)have no right to interfere in the election process to decide whether employees will be union.
Employers cannot be members of the organization nor decide who can be their leaders or how their funds are spent.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)How's Boeing's CEO going to get another $29 million dollar payday if the plant organizes?
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/morning_call/2015/03/boeing-ceo-mcnerneys-compensation-grows-24-percent.html?ana=e_sea_rdup&s=newsletter&ed=2015-03-16&u=ColXVN5SPzQtLHFP87ho2w07857290&t=1426529075
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Said no one who knows anything about this corrupt sack of excrement.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)It's a right to work state, if people don't want to join the union, they don't have to.
Let those that want to have a union have one.