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NEARLY 75% OF WORKERS VOTE TO DISBAND UNION
Workers at a Boeing plant in North Charleston won a major victory for capitalism last week after they voted to disband their union and instead allow the company to possibly relocate a plant there.
An overwhelming 199 of 267 workers voted to dissolve their membership in the International Association of Machinists, which pleased Boeing and angered the union bosses.
The local plant makes rear fuselage sections for Boeing’s 787, a new fast-selling lightweight jet that has been delayed by snags with suppliers and an eight-week strike last year by the IAM.
Boeing has said it would consider North Charleston and its manufacturing hub outside Seattle, among other sites, for a new 787 assembly plant. A decision is expected by the end of the year. [Charleston Post and Courier]
The company recently purchased the plant from Vought Aircraft Industries at a cost of roughly $587 million. Boeing said they plan to use the plant to make large sections of the long-awaited 787 Dreamliner.
Well, that’ll show ‘em! I don’t think this is going to influence the other 99.99999% of Boeing’s unionized workforce–the ones who work in Seattle, America, where they actually put the planes together.
Boeing bought this plant from Vought because it wasn’t keeping up. These guys bailed on the union because they weren’t getting the job done, and they’re trying to save their collective a$$. We’ll see how that works out.
Let Boeing set up a second line in S.C and lose their ass in more production problems. The quality of the aft sections sent to Everett have been substandard and I would not fly on a airplane build there!
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