Extremely Upset IAM District 751 Workers File NLRB Charges, Demand Re-Vote On Boeing “Corporate Exto

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Extremely Upset IAM District 751 Workers File NLRB Charges, Demand Re-Vote On Boeing “Corporate Extortion Plan”

Posted: January 7, 2014 by laborradio

By Doug Cunningham

[Connie Kelliher]: “It’s really a corporate extortion plan by Boeing trying to make aerospace a race to the bottom. There was about seven to eight thousand members that didn’t vote on it and it was such a slim margin – 300 votes either way would have changed it. That means that about 37 1/2 percent of the members actually got to decide the fate for the next ten years which erases 78 years of collective bargaining history.”

IAM District 751 spokesperson Connie Kelliher. Many IAM District 751 Boeing machinists are very angry about the vote forced on them by their international union that destroyed defined benefit pensions, increased health care costs and in effect diminished wages. Some members have filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board and are demanding a re-vote when a true majority of IAM Boeing members would have a chance to cast ballots. Kelliher says due to members being away on holidays vacation about 25 percent of members didn’t vote on this concessionary contract proposal.

[Connie Kelliher 2]: “Members are very upset. There’s been a huge outcry since Friday’s vote was announced from the members calling for a re-vote. Our international president forced this vote under the guise of he wanted the members to have the final say on it. Well, if you want the members to have the final say, don’t pick a day where you know 25-30 percent of them are not available. A lot of people are very upset and have gone to the NLRB. They are passing around petitions that they want to call for a re-vote when truly a majority of the members could determine the fate. Our international president has said all along that he responds to hearing from the members. So right now the members are busy speaking up and letting him hear them.”

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