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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:20 PM Mar 2015

Haley says she will oppose union at Boeing SC plant

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says she will fight attempts to unionize Boeing’s 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/

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Romeo.lima333

(1,127 posts)
1. why is she injecting herself in someone else's exercise of their right to associate
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:27 PM
Mar 2015

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

A HERETIC I AM

(24,368 posts)
12. For the exact same reason the Governor of Tennessee...
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:51 PM
Mar 2015

Involved himself in the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant vote.

They don't want unions in the south because they like keeping workers voiceless and desperate

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
3. "She called it hypocritical that a union that several years ago opposed the SC Boeing plant"
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:29 PM
Mar 2015
now says it wants to represent workers in South Carolina.


And just why do you think they opposed it? Because of crap like this.

Takket

(21,570 posts)
4. same crap they pulled at the VW plant a year or two ago
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:31 PM
Mar 2015

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)
5. Worker reps from that plant should make themselves
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:34 PM
Mar 2015

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)
6. Union organizers are usually not allowed to enter a work place.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:50 PM
Mar 2015

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)
14. Thanks for helping me understand.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 07:01 PM
Mar 2015

Those of us in Right To Work (For Less) states aren't often acquainted with the details of how this happens.

LiberalFighter

(50,928 posts)
8. Haley is stupid.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 12:58 PM
Mar 2015

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)
10. That's it in a nutshell
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:31 PM
Mar 2015

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)
16. It is also my opinion that employers and politicians
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 07:35 PM
Mar 2015

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.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,290 posts)
19. I don't see why she even cares
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 08:10 PM
Mar 2015

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.

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