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Dear Jack, Big Labor's blueprint is clear: Use the Obama administration to hold a company and its workers hostage until the company relents. "Anywhere else it would be called thuggery. But under this administration — with its every move favoring its organized union base — it's called justice," the Boston Herald ably explained. And your National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is acting to make sure they don't completely get away with it. First, the good news. Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and International Association of Machinists (IAM) union bosses have abandoned their outrageous case against Boeing. The settlement ensures that no workers in Right to Work South Carolina will be forced out of their jobs at the whim of unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. But this only after Boeing agreed to start new airline production in Washington State, where IAM union bosses can force workers to pay dues as a condition of employment. The settlement marks a decisive victory for thousands of South Carolina workers who currently or will work at Boeing's facility in South Carolina, but I'm afraid it only tells part of the story. These developments confirm what concerned citizens suspected from the very beginning -- that union bosses hijacked the NLRB process and filed spurious charges against Boeing as a bargaining chip. By intervening in the case for three of the South Carolina workers, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys ensured that workers' voices would be heard in the legal battle and exposed the bankruptcy of the NLRB's case. Once the case got out of Big Labor's hands at the NLRB, experts predicted Boeing and the South Carolina workers would prevail on the facts. But that didn't stop IAM union bosses and the forced unionism proponents at the NLRB from making a mockery of federal labor law for leverage against Boeing. And frankly, the settlement doesn't settle everything. This summer, with free legal aid from Foundation staff attorneys, Boeing employee Dennis Murray filed federal unfair labor practices charges against the IAM union hierarchy for illegal retaliation. You see, before Boeing bought the South Carolina plant from Vought, its previous owner, the workers were forced to accept the "representation" of IAM union brass. But Murray and the other workers found that IAM union bosses were unresponsive to the needs of the workers and voted to decertify the union after it rammed through an unpopular contract. "Many of the provisions of the new IAM contract were worse than what Vought employees already had without a contract. For example, employees lost medical, dental, and short term disability," Murray explained. Though Murray's job now appears to be safe, Foundation attorneys won't back down. No worker -- or in this case, thousands of workers -- should be used as a political football by union bosses and their puppet bureaucrats. That's why it's vital we continue to expose and fight back against the thuggery. Sincerely, Mark Mix P.S. The Foundation relies completely on voluntary contributions from its supporters to provide free legal aid. To chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more please click here. |
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