Transcript Shows SC Boeing Employees Kept in Dark about Labor Board Sham Settlement
Washington, DC (December 14, 2011) – National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) documents show that workers who had intervened in the Board’s high-profile case against Boeing were instead shut out of the entire process by which the case ended with Boeing agreeing to locate production of its 737 MAX plane in forced-dues Washington State.
With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, North Charleston Boeing employees Dennis Murray, Cynthia Ramaker, and Meredith Going, Sr. moved to intervene in the NLRB's unprecedented case targeting the company for locating production of some of its 787 Dreamliner airplanes in South Carolina, in part due to its popular Right to Work law. In Right to Work states, workers cannot be compelled to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment.
An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) originally denied the workers' request but was forced by the NLRB in Washington, D.C., to allow them to participate as partial intervenors in the case.
The transcript of the hearing ending the case in which NLRB, Boeing, and International Association of Machinist (IAM) union lawyers participated show that the workers were explicitly shut out of the proceedings. According to the transcript, the judge acknowledged that he had "finessed" the workers out of the process, which occurred without any notice to the workers.
Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work, issued the following statement in the wake of the hearing's revelations:
"The Obama Labor Board has set a dangerous precedent that will allow union bosses to bully job providers not to locate jobs in states with Right to Work protections for their workers, thus forcing more workers into union-dues-paying ranks, or face costly legal action.
"Boeing, IAM, and NLRB lawyers' transparent ploy to sweep the South Carolina workers under the rug once again shows that the Obama NLRB puts union boss priorities above the rights and well-being of individual employees.
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Unions
If you still need more info, about the questions of Labor Unions, just take a look at Wonder Bakery and their problems!
Back a few years they declared Bankruptcy, and their unions reneged on their promises.
The ONE GLARING POINT: Drivers can't load trucks/trailers, AND bread and cakes can be put on one (1) truck even if the customers take both bread and Twinkies, they each must be delivered by a separate truck & driver both going to the very same store!
This is the why Big Unions kill the very jobs they try too save!
I Wonder
Are you really that blind. Your claiming a company went bankrupt from having to pay for an extra trip or two. I would think it has more to do with CEO's being overpaid to vacation, instead of working. You could add up all of the truck drivers salaries and it wouldn't even compare to 1 overpaid CEO. Yeah blame the truck drivers.
A fee trips.
Talk about being blind. That was one of the stupidest responses I ever read. Its just like your government moron buddies. Its only a small tax increase. Maybe true but when you use a little commonsense, you realize that its on a couple of trips to one place (every delivery day) times how many days, times how many places that need deliveries, and the next thing you know greedy union jerks lose their jobs and real American workers lose theirs and on and on. You better keep your union job because thinking lke that shows why some people need unions to keep them from being let go.
Agreed
A truck driver is a truck driver and has but one job - to drive the truck - not load/unload it. Even anti-union super-giants like Wal-Mart practice THAT policy!
As for not mixing cargo, have you ever bothered to investigate why that's rarely a poor practice? Potential cross-contamination (look that term up) is often the reason. And while I don't know how regular breads and Twinkies (or 'cakes' as you said) could cross-contaminate, I suppose it's possible since the preservatives in Twinkies do manage to give them an incredibly long shelf-life.
That's OK. Blame the union while the true culprit is unknown. A contributing factor could have been delivery costs, but you've no idea if the logistical cost of delivering goods was to blame at all, or if the union was actually responsible for the policies you cited or not.