Washington, DC (June 15, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A Charleston-area Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) employee has filed a federal unfair labor practice charge against the union behind the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) high-profile case against Boeing. The employee filed the charge with the NLRB regional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Wednesday with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n
\nThe charge is in response to the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union and its Local 751 abusing federal labor policy \u2013 which is supposedly intended to help workers protect their rights \u2013 to bully Boeing for locating a new production line for 787 Dreamliner airplanes in South Carolina, partly because South Carolina is a Right to Work state.<\/p>\n
\nThe charge spells out how IAM union bosses are retaliating against the South Carolina employees by abusing the legal process to attempt to eliminate the jobs of over 1,000 Boeing employees in the Charleston area after the workers at the Dreamliner plant expelled the IAM from their workplace before the production line was located there.<\/p>\n
\nThe IAM Local 751 union’s charges \u2013 which spurred NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon to file a complaint against Boeing \u2013 would eliminate over 1,000 existing jobs in South Carolina if successful, not to mention several thousand more jobs that would be created once the Boeing plant reaches full production capacity.<\/p>\n
\nThe workers in Boeing’s South Carolina plant booted IAM union bosses from their plant to help attract the Dreamliner production, as the workers did not want union bosses interfering with their job prospects. The charge against the union points out that if the IAM union hierarchy still had a presence in the South Carolina plant, then the South Carolina workers’ jobs would not be at risk.<\/p>\n
\n\u00abWorkers should be free to choose whether or not to affiliate with a union and not have to worry about their jobs as a result,\u00bb said Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work. \u00abNational Right to Work is proud to stand with the courageous employees as they fight to save their jobs and prevent the devastating effects the IAM union bosses\u2019 and the NLRB’s actions will have on their community and workers across the country.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\nNational Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed the charge for Boeing employee Dennis Murray, who led the effort to remove the union from the Charleston plant. Foundation attorneys also represent Murray; Cynthia Ramaker, the former president of the IAM local union which was removed from the plant; and employee Meredith Going, Sr. with a motion to intervene in the NLRB’s case against Boeing. The employees’ motion is currently pending appeal with the NLRB in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
\nFor more information, visit https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/boeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC (June 15, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A Charleston-area Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) employee has filed a federal unfair labor practice charge against the union behind the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) high-profile case against Boeing. The employee filed the charge with the NLRB regional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Wednesday with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n
\nThe charge is in response to the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union and its Local 751 abusing federal labor policy \u2013 which is supposedly intended to help workers protect their rights \u2013 to bully Boeing for locating a new production line for 787 Dreamliner airplanes in South Carolina, partly because South Carolina is a Right to Work state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n