{"id":5137,"date":"2011-06-18T01:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2011-06-18T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T11:04:04","slug":"republicorp-takes-action-for-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/republicorp-takes-action-for-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"RepubliCorp Takes Action for Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a nutshell, Boeing has a contract with union workers in Washington State, but they are relocating a plant to South Carolina, a so-called right to work<\/em> state, to bust the union.\u00a0 That\u2019s illegal, and the NLRB called them on it.\u00a0 Darryl Issa of RepubliCorp, will hold Congressional hearings in SC, where the pro-Boeing sentiment is highest, because RepubliCorp loves corporations, but hates workers like you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A U.S. House committee takes to the road today for a politically charged field hearing in North Charleston, S.C., to determine whether the Boeing Co.<\/a> violated labor laws by moving an assembly operation from Washington State to South Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Chairman Issa and the other committee members want to hear from folks on the ground to learn what the economic impacts are and really get their arms around the local impact of the potential decision<\/strong>,” said Jeffrey Solsby, a spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At issue is a National Labor Relations Board lawsuit against the airplane manufacturer alleging that the company illegally moved the assembly of its fuel-efficient 787 Dreamliner from union-friendly Washington to the South, where union influence is less prominent.<\/p>\n

Almost every GOP presidential candidate has chastised the lawsuit. Mitt Romney called it a “power grab.” Herman Cain said it was “completely unacceptable … political games.” Tim Pawlenty called it “another outrageous overreach by the federal government.” And Newt Gingrich accused the labor board of “basically breaking the law.”<\/p>\n

The labor board, which is appointed by the president, wants to force Boeing to keep assembly of the jetliner in Washington, but would not make the company forgo the new non-unionized plant.<\/p>\n

Boeing said a NLRB victory would “significantly impact, and perhaps permanently halt, Boeing’s efforts to complete the facility,” bringing “substantial economic harm to South Carolina.”<\/p>\n

The labor board says Boeing moved the assembly to retaliate against union workers at the Washington plant, where there have been five strikes since 1977<\/strong>. The most recent strike in 2008 cost Boeing $1.8 billion, according to the company.<\/p>\n

The board has cited comments that a Boeing senior official made to a Seattle Times reporter as evidence that the company was trying to avoid unionized labor\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Issa is a lying hypocrite.\u00a0 He only wants to hear from folks on the ground in SC, where workers would be unable to strike, but he wants no input from folks on the ground in WA, where thousands of union workers will be thrown onto the streets if RepubliCorp has their way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a nutshell, Boeing has a contract with union workers in Washington State, but they are relocating a plant to South Carolina, a so-called right to work state, to bust the union.\u00a0 That\u2019s illegal, and the NLRB called them on it.\u00a0 Darryl Issa of RepubliCorp, will hold Congressional hearings in SC, where the pro-Boeing sentiment […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}