US House passes bill restricting action against Boeing's 787 Charleston line

[lowtimedriver]

Hopefully it doesn't pass in the senate.

Here's an idea, put your employee's first, take care of them and you won't have to have unions.

Close the SC plant and then Boeing will open the 87 line up in China. Brilliant! That will help US employees.

 

[densoo]

By the way, we have had the Bush tax cuts since 2001 and 2003. Obama extended ALL of them, and lowered payroll taxes. We have had all these tax CUTS in place for years. Tax rates on "job creators" have been far lower than Clinton era (good job creation under the higher tax rates) for a decade.

WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

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The governor of Michigan cut taxes 99 times under the principle of getting more capital into the hands of the job creators. When she left office the state was 48th in terms of tax burden among the 50 states.

And the jobs? Gone.

 

[bluesideup1]

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The governor of Michigan cut taxes 99 times under the principle of getting more capital into the hands of the job creators. When she left office the state was 48th in terms of tax burden among the 50 states.

And the jobs? Gone.

Ya, it was the tax cuts that killed the jobs in Michigan. It couldn't have been the massive unions and their giant pensions that caused most of the plants in Michigan to close or move somewhere else. It also couldn't have been the insane policy of the democrats to promote home ownership to anything with a pulse regardless of whether they could pay for it or not.

This policy lead to corrupt lenders which led to a housing collapse that put a bunch of the laborers/businesses out of work, created massive bank failures, restricted infusions of credit when other companies needed it, caused a trillion dollar bailout, increased the size of the government and created more job killing government regulation.

But no your right it was the tax cuts that killed the jobs and economy.

 

[pilotyip]

Ford and GM are strong, Chrysler is coming back. All still union. Poor management and poor products ruin companies. You always conveniently seem to forget that management and product selection/development are important, only those darned line employees ruin companies.

In 1994 the UAW pushed GM into a deal it knew it could most likely not fulfill. It gave unlimited medical and COLA to retirees. GM knew a lengthy strike might drive them into BK. They had exhausted the equity markets, and borrowing was the only solution. Much like living off your credit cards. So they bet on maybe things would work, but they knew in the end they were in trouble. The power of a potential union strike drove them to make a bad management decision.

As they lost market share to foreign rivals, Detroit's auto makers and the UAW lost the power to set standards on labor costs. Yet during the prosperous 1990s, they seemed reluctant to accept the fact that their business model -- with its expensive defined-benefit health and pension programs -- was driving the domestic industry toward ruin. The UAW and its biggest employer have effectively conceded that their golden age of dominance is over.

GM executives consistently acknowledged that it couldn't be competitive in North America without a fundamental change in its labor-cost structure.

The UAW got a harsh lesson in the consequences of bankruptcy proceedings when former GM parts unit Delphi Corp. sought Chapter 11 protection in 2005, and pushed through substantial job and wage cuts under a deal subsidized by GM.

After 1994, GM's obligation to provide health care for 412,356 union members, retirees and surviving spouses drove them to BK. Even after a partial overhaul of retiree health-care benefits in 2005, GM still faced a $51 billion obligation to UAW members. Health-care obligations added more than $1,900 to the cost of every GM vehicle sold in the U.S. in 2006, a heavy burden given that many GM vehicles sold for less than competing Toyota vehicles.

Because of this burden they could not invest properly in future product(edited WSJ)

 

[redflyer65]

GM still carries some of that debt today. I remember when they recently had their IPO and some of the big money was staying away.

The worst of the whole deal back then were the 'Job Banks'. Get paid to sit at home and get full pay. They all loved it, but the reality is that it chokes the goose. They couldn't see the forest for the trees.

RF

 

[densoo]

Ya, it was the tax cuts that killed the jobs in Michigan. It couldn't have been the massive unions and their giant pensions that caused most of the plants in Michigan to close or move somewhere else. It also couldn't have been the insane policy of the democrats to promote home ownership to anything with a pulse regardless of whether they could pay for it or not.

This policy lead to corrupt lenders which led to a housing collapse that put a bunch of the laborers/businesses out of work, created massive bank failures, restricted infusions of credit when other companies needed it, caused a trillion dollar bailout, increased the size of the government and created more job killing government regulation.

But no your right it was the tax cuts that killed the jobs and economy.

It would be simpler just to say, "correlation does not equal causation." But I agree with you--tax cuts did not kill jobs in Michigan. However Michigan proves that tax cuts do not automatically save or create jobs either, as the D.C. hand puppets for the wealthy keep repeating as if this is some kind of mathematical certainty.

 

[pilotyip]

It would be simpler just to say, "correlation does not equal causation." But I agree with you--tax cuts did not kill jobs in Michigan. However Michigan proves that tax cuts do not automatically save or create jobs either, as the D.C. hand puppets for the wealthy keep repeating as if this is some kind of mathematical certainty.

GOP is running everything in Michigan now; enough people got tired of the same ole union reps running the state. The new governor accomplished more in his first 120 days that the previous governor accomplished in 8 years, but she was pretty so nothing else mattered. The state bond rating has been raised; the state has a balanced budget for the first time in 10 years. A pro-business climate is being established, public employee unions have pressure on them to reform pay and benefits, and state appointed emergency managers are stepping into BK school districts with dictatorial powers to make things right. The public employee unions tried to get a recall on the governor, but got only 300K of the 1.1M signature needed. They could raise no money because it was all going to Wisconsin.

 

[redflyer65]

I liked how Granholm moved to Berkley the day that Synder was sworn in so she could start her new job as a Professor at Cal Berkley.

She really did care about Michigan! Plus the fact that she was a liberal Canadian to start with..

RF

 

[densoo]

GOP is running everything in Michigan now; enough people got tired of the same ole union reps running the state. The new governor accomplished more in his first 120 days that the previous governor accomplished in 8 years ...

Maybe he'll run for president.

 

[PCL_128]

How are they threatening/interfering with union members rights?

Boeing made public statements that they were moving jobs to SC in retaliation for the union members going on strike in Washington. That is illegal. The NLRA prohibits companies from taking any action in retaliation for legal job actions. If Boeing had been smart, they would have just said that they were moving the plant to SC for purely financial reasons. But because they wanted to scare the union members into not taking any job actions in the future, they did a stupid thing and made public statements that got them in trouble under the law. They deserve all of the pain that they are getting from the NLRB.

Hey we are alpa, you need to read the Wagner act, it does not apply to the rights of a company to open plants, period.

The WA only applies to companies interfering in union business.

Under the NLRA, this is interference in union activities. Taking actions to suppress legal job actions, like retaliating for past legal job actions, is considered interference. Why? Because it suppresses union members from taking actions to protect themselves in the future with further legal job actions. Sorry, you may not like it, but what Boeing has done is illegal, and the NLRB is doing exactly what the law charges them with doing.