Boeing’s Shameful Attacks On Its South Carolina Employees’ Rights Will Not Go Unchallenged
Source: NH Labor News
Washington, DC Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, and Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, issue this statement in response to Boeings latest tactics aimed at squashing attempts by its employees in South Carolina to select the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers as their collective bargaining representative.
Boeings sinister claims that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is somehow jeopardizing aerospace jobs as it opposes a job-killing flag-of-convenience airline is both factually inaccurate and a cynical attempt by the company to deny its employees in South Carolina the benefits of collective bargaining.
The IAM and the entire labor movement is opposing Norwegian Air Internationals (NAI) entry into the U.S. market because the airlines application for a permit before the U.S. Department of Transportation violates our air services trade agreement with the European Union (EU). By headquartering NAI in Ireland instead of Norway, the company is attempting to avoid strong labor laws and current collective bargaining obligations in its home country. NAIs operating plan centers on hiring Asian flight crews under Singaporean or Thai employment contracts. The fact that this scheme will undermine labor standards and collective bargaining rights in violation of Article 17 bis of the U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement is the basis for our opposition to the companys application.
If NAIs application is approved, the carrier will gain an unfair competitive advantage over airlines that play by the rules most of which are significant and longstanding Boeing customers. NAIs parent company, Norwegian Air Shuttle, already flies to the U.S., using Boeing aircraft, and can continue to do so and expand flights under its existing operating authority. NAIs application has absolutely nothing to do with buying more Boeing airplanes but has everything to do with setting up a corporate shell to eviscerate labor standards, undercut fair competition and destroy middle-class U.S. airline jobs.
FULL story at link.
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The New Hampshire Labor News is a group of NH Workers who believe that we need to protect ourselves against the attacks on workers. We are proud union members who are working to preserve the middle class. The NHLN talks mostly about news and politics from NH. We also talk about national issues that effect working men and women here in the Granite State.
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Stevepol
(4,234 posts)TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)nt
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)Right. To. Work. State.
In SC the workers will never vote a union in.
pampango
(24,692 posts)and prefers to blame industry problems on the dreaded OTHERS (Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Muslims, etc.) rather than the corporations he is in bed with in spreading right-to-work.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,072 posts)... you beat me to it! Nice post.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Right to work laws be damned.
k&r,
-app