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Labor Unions Kill Jobs. Period.

Posted on | June 30, 2011 | 9 Comments

Sean Higgins of Investors Business Daily reports:

The business world is abuzz over the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint vs. Boeing’s new South Carolina production line. For NLRB critics, the case boils down to one thing: “right-to-work” laws.
Right-to-work states have generally lower unemployment, higher job growth, lower taxes and better business climates. They have growing populations and have been attracting businesses from other states.
In most states, once a workplace is unionized, employees are required to join the union or they can’t work there. But 22 states, including South Carolina, have passed laws that give employees the right not to join. Hence the term “right-to-work.”

The facts are beyond dispute:

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  • http://pumping-irony.livejournal.com/ Wilbur Post

    Unions don’t care about who works or doesn’t work, they just care about the worker’s “right” to contribute to them (and by extension, the Democrats.)  I’d wager if SC passed a law that all workers would be required to “contribute” to the union regardless of whether they joined, the NLRB complaint would disappear quicker than a stupid presidential gaffe on the Obama 2012 website.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Bottom line, don’t contribute to them by purchasing products made by unions. By anything else. Buy Chinese if you have to, but don’t patronize them.

  • Joe

    Geithner is jumping ship.  Greenspan says stimulous did diddly. 

    Unfortunately these captions of the Fed are both Republicans and Democrats.  They mouth some free market platitudes and then they practice crony captialism.  That is the problem. 

    But back to those unions.  This is not about negotiating a livable wage and reasonable hours.  That fight happened in Henry Ford’s time (who by the way always paid his workers pretty well).  They have become a shake down fund that makes doing business inefficient.  The UAW is to the auto industry in the way the Teachers union is to public school education and the machinist union is to Boeing in Washington.  Hence the reason manufacturers seek to build in non-union states.  They pay high salaries.  But they avoid the rest of the bullshit. 

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    I don’t think it would disappear.  Like every Leftist movement, the Union Movement is driven by a desire to gain as much power as possible in order to be able to implement their non-popular utopian schemes.

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Yeah, I always “look for the union label” and buy another brand.  It just makes no sense to patronize thuggery, it can only perpetuate it.

    I’ll never buy a GM or Chrysler product again, either. 

    GE is on the “don’t buy” list, too.  Play ball with Zippy the Jug-Eared Pinhead, and you won’t be getting any of my money voluntarily.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Absolutely, the latest clear illustration of the shakedown is the NLRB action against Boeing.  How can it be “retaliation” when they aren’t closing any production lines, factories, or cutting any jobs in WA?  It’s an entirely new plant . . .

    The Machinists and NLRB know they will lose in the end, although there are plenty of insane lefty judges put on the bench by Clinton and Obama, and a few Carter survivors, who might rule any darned way.  So they hope to force Boeing to settle with them for a couple hundred million dollars to replenish the union coffers.

    Shakedown.  If you or I tried it, we’d be looking at 5-10 in the pen.

  • Anonymous

    I look at the price tag.

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