Oct 28 2009
Machinists Union May Chase Boeing Plant to South Carolina
More evidence that leftist economic policies destroy economies by chasing away jobs and people. A few weeks back I made note about a bid both South Carolina and the State of Washington made to entice Boeing to locate their new plant in one of our states. Washington was touting the highly educated work force available while South Carolina has the advantage of a more business friendly economic climate. It is sounding like South Carolina is going to win.
According to reports, talks between Boeing and the Machinist union in Washington have fallen apart, inferring that the union’s demands for an above market rate of compensation for their would be members was not setting well with Boeing. This would appear to give an edge to South Carolina, whose Right to Work policies are much more palatable.
Fortunately, we still have competition in the marketplace throughout our nation. We are lucky that this isn’t another instance of a company moving its resources overseas for cheaper labor in India or China. Expensive union labor simply cannot compete in 21st century America. Manufacturing is all but gone in our nation and some that is still left, like the auto companies, are being artificially propped up by the Federal government. They’ll never learn though. While the business hostile north continues to bleed jobs and population, our states here in the sun belt will continue to thrive and grow.
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[...] will be located in North Charleston and could bring an estimated 3,800 new jobs to the state. As I wrote yesterday, talks between Boeing and the Machinist Union in Washington broke down. Once again, we see the [...]