South Carolina governor says Ford, GM, Chrysler union jobs not welcome in state

[Redfairen]

Source: Detroit Free Press

South Carolina is glad to have nonunion jobs from BMW, Michelin and Boeing, but don’t expect any factories from Ford, General Motors, Chrysler or other companies with unionized workforces.

According to Gov. Nikki Haley, they’re not welcome.

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“It’s not something we want to see happen,” she told the Greenville News following an appearance at an automotive conference in downtown Greenville.

“We discourage any companies that have unions from wanting to come to South Carolina because we don’t want to taint the water.”



Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20140220/BUSINESS01/302200065/

[deathrind]

1. Ignorance is bliss...

[NancyDL]

2. I'd like to see some of her supporters justify this policy...

I don't understand her thinking at all.

[kristopher]

3. That's because you aren't insane. nt

[Xyzse]

16. This

+∞

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. and she is not telling them.....

the water is already tainted....

[amandabeech]

5. Someone tell this idiot that Boeing has many unionized plants,

and the German automakers are unionized in Germany.

[Sherman A1]

6. One wonders

if she believes that we should "buy American"?


it seems like a strange bit of logic on her part, but that is generally what the GOP is generally very good at producing?

[bkanderson76]

7. Quite The Statement Nikki....Challenging Workmanship & Progress? Sounds To Me Like There's Been a

line drawn in the sand. I do believe if I were Ford, GM, or Chrysler, I wouldn't pull a new car off a truck within 200 miles of South Carolina.

[raccoon]

8. She's an idiot. I voted for Sheheen. Vanilla is right; the water is already tainted.nt

[liberal N proud]

9. Keeping your constituents poor, the poor don't vote

The new South Carolina state motto

[The Wizard]

10. A radical right wing extremist governor

spitting in the faces of the working class. She needs an enema.

[newfie11]

11. And idiots will still vote her in

Then complain because they have no jobs.

[jwirr]

12. There will be a backlash. You cannot talk to one union like that and not be heard by all. Including

both US and International unions. She will be lucky companies do not start leaving her state - let alone relocate there.

[Leontius]

19. The German Metal Workers union has already stated they will oppose any expansion of German

companies in the South that are not union represented.

[rtracey]

13. turning DOWN jobs

Well, I hope the right winged idiots in SC. see this and vote her out. I vacation there every year, I love it, but their politics are to shit for. Good Luck SC, you are going to remain a depressed state, (except for the rich east coast Low country resort areas)...

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

14. Labor

ought band together and get in that state and ORGANIZE!

[sakabatou]

15. Sigh

Republicans won't learn, will they?

[Brigid]

17. By all rights . . .

This should cost Haley her job when the next election comes around.

[Solly Mack]

18. Wouldn't want to "taint" that "Brawndo" she's selling.