A recent story in the Charleston Post and Courier revealed an interesting development on the labor relations front. Union workers at a Boeing Company aircraft fabrication plant in North Charleston, SC voted in overwhelming numbers to de-certify their union, the International Association of Machinists, and return their plant to non-union status.
The Boeing Workers voted by a 3-1 margin to discontinue their affiliation with the union, apparently hoping to persuade the Boeing Company to name their plant one of the Boeing 787 assembly plants. Currently, the plant fabricates the rear fuselage sections of the B-787.
In the middle of a deep recession, and with major support from the White House and Congress for making union certification easier, workers are rejecting unions and hoping to protect their jobs with their own productivity and initiative rather than by collective bargaining.
Individual initiative and productivity? Wonder if that will work?
The Boeing Workers voted by a 3-1 margin to discontinue their affiliation with the union, apparently hoping to persuade the Boeing Company to name their plant one of the Boeing 787 assembly plants. Currently, the plant fabricates the rear fuselage sections of the B-787.
In the middle of a deep recession, and with major support from the White House and Congress for making union certification easier, workers are rejecting unions and hoping to protect their jobs with their own productivity and initiative rather than by collective bargaining.
Individual initiative and productivity? Wonder if that will work?
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/sep/14/boeing-co-employees-vote-to-disband-union/
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