After reading a couple of articles on this, both with good background, I'd have to lean towards Boeing on this one. I don't for one second think that Boeing isn't making this decision because of what has happened in the past, and that might be cause for a case against them, but in the big picture I don't see why they can't build a new plant in another state to conduct their business. Does this mean that Boeing can only operate their business in Washington state forever? That makes no sense to me.
I have a hard time with a lot of this Union stuff - including Wisconsin, which I think was a political stunt and motivated by business money (mainly from other states and organization). Also a stunt for Walker who I assume has the motive of notoriety and higher office some day - securing financial backing by his actions. Bigger problem overall in my view, but I've already railed on the Supreme Court decision that we will all have to live with moving forward.
Unions have to be realistic about things, as do companies. Some unions are frankly not that realistic. There are crooks in the unions, just like there are crooks in the legislation and in business.
My overriding fear is that the way things have been going, the average worker is not being looked out for, and big business will completely control our lives politically and economically. Which means that big business will look out for big business, and just use us to help them, and our opinions will be phased out in large part. In many ways, unions may become very important for the lower and middle class in the years ahead - and clearly big business is doing its best to get rid of all of them as quickly as they can.
Big business has had a ton of money sitting on the sidelines for quite a while now. They haven't been hiring, and they certainly could have been. But now that they are getting by with fewer workers and gaining wage concessions in many cases, they probably will never go back to more employment. Are we really better off with big business "looking out for us?"
I have a hard time with a lot of this Union stuff - including Wisconsin, which I think was a political stunt and motivated by business money (mainly from other states and organization). Also a stunt for Walker who I assume has the motive of notoriety and higher office some day - securing financial backing by his actions. Bigger problem overall in my view, but I've already railed on the Supreme Court decision that we will all have to live with moving forward.
Unions have to be realistic about things, as do companies. Some unions are frankly not that realistic. There are crooks in the unions, just like there are crooks in the legislation and in business.
My overriding fear is that the way things have been going, the average worker is not being looked out for, and big business will completely control our lives politically and economically. Which means that big business will look out for big business, and just use us to help them, and our opinions will be phased out in large part. In many ways, unions may become very important for the lower and middle class in the years ahead - and clearly big business is doing its best to get rid of all of them as quickly as they can.
Big business has had a ton of money sitting on the sidelines for quite a while now. They haven't been hiring, and they certainly could have been. But now that they are getting by with fewer workers and gaining wage concessions in many cases, they probably will never go back to more employment. Are we really better off with big business "looking out for us?"
