It started as bad blood between aerospace giant Boeing Co. and its unionized production workers.Read the rest here.
But now a feud over Boeing’s decision to assemble some of its 787 jetliners at a new, non-union facility in South Carolina has mushroomed into a very public and highly political fight over outsourcing, right-to-work states and the future of the National Labor Relations Board.
The clash's outcome could hinge on whether Boeing executives publicly said more than they should have about their motivation for opening the new plant in South Carolina.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Spat over Boeing plant sparks political firestorm
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Keep on demolishing the demand side of your economy; see how long it takes it to collapse.
Union membership does not render an assembly line worker more productive than his non-union competitors, whether in South Carolina or Southeast Asia. Eventually, even right-to-work South Carolina will find the US government's environmental and wage/hour regs render it uncompetitive.
When the Western neo-liberals agitated for open borders and domestic taxation instead of tariffs, I don't think they realized where this sort of thing ends up.
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