Well, Boeing certainly made a decision:
PART OF THE GENERAL BLUE-TO-RED JOB MIGRATION: Boeing isn’t a story of jobs disappearing. They’re just moving to South Carolina. “So 1800 workers in Washington are finding themselves unemployed. At the same time, more than 3000 people in the Palmetto State have gone to work, begun training and started pumping new life into the economy. So why aren’t the two unions in Washington who are making this doleful announcement talking about that story? I’m just taking a shot in the dark here, but it might be because South Carolina is a right to work state and the union has already been roundly rejected by the workers there.” And the press won’t debunk them because that would step on an anti-Trump storyline.
And before the anti-job freedom folks (aka, unions) start in, the back story is this:
Nearly three-quarters of eligible production workers at Boeing’s South Carolina plant voted Wednesday not to join the International Association of Machinists in a major setback for organized labor. The Post & Courier newspaper reported that 2,097 of 2,828 voting workers — 74.2 percent — cast ballots against unionization.
While they wail about “race to the bottom” concerning wages, a wage of $0/hr is unemployment as the Seattle based union members are now unemployed – the REAL bottom. And in this case, the SC workers themselves decided that the union didn’t add value to their jobs or lives – something that has proven out that when people have the freedom to choose, they often choose to leave the union (and give themselves a raise).
Remember that unions don’t talk about something that is the real cost factor. The purpose of a union is to extract more wealth from others than their members would otherwise get but that comes at an economic cost. What also is a very large cost factor that most unions want to hide is the economic price of their “work rules” which can be very substantial indeed. Enough such that companies, like Boeing, just leave calculating that the costs of moving will outstrip the cost of staying over time.
NH had the chance to become a winner in attracting new business to the State – and blew it thanks to Speaker Shawn Jasper and the other unionistas masquerading as Republicans EXACTLY for this reason (to kill off RTW).
(H/T: Instapundit)
