Unions hit GOP's "Boeing Bill"

[Omaha Steve]

http://peoplesworld.org/unions-hit-gop-s-boeing-bill/

by: Mark Gruenberg
July 22 2011

WASHINGTON - Call it "The Boeing Bill." But what it really is, union leaders say, is a move to strip the National Labor Relations Board of much of its power to rule for and protect workers' rights.

Nevertheless, labor's objections didn't derail the intensely ideological GOP majority on the House Education and the Workforce Committee from ramming the so-called "Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act" (HR 2587) through on a party-line vote on July 21.

GOP Committee Chairman John Kline's measure grew out of a complaint the board's general counsel, its top enforcement officer, filed against Boeing earlier this year, months after Boeing said it would start producing its 787 Dreamliner passenger plane at its new plant in the anti-union, right-to-work state of South Carolina.

The Machinists, citing public statements from Boeing officials from its CEO on down, said Boeing really sent production to South Carolina to retaliate against IAM for past exercise of its duty to represent and defend workers in the firm's aircraft production and parts plants in Washington state and Oregon.

Such open retaliation against workers for exercising their rights, including the right to strike, is illegal under labor law. The NLRB tried to mediate the dispute between Boeing and the Machinists, but when the company refused to budge, the agency reluctantly filed its complaint. The case is now before an administrative law judge.

FULL story at link.

[patrice]

1. "(the bill) legalizes the most-despicable form of outsourcing,

by keeping the NLRB from being able to stop it."

They aren't even good "free market" "capitalists"; the deck MUST be stacked with coercion and tax-write offs or they can't do business.