|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News |
Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:41 PM Original message |
Boeing workers in South Carolina reject union |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Next time, let SC secede.....nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wow, I hope they enjoy it when Boeing moves their jobs somewhere or gives them a huge pay cut. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Wouldn't surprise me a bit. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. They'll close the place down & send te work to Wichita anyway. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. They're trying to get that second assembly line for the Dreamliner moved from WA to SC |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Exactly! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:12 AM Response to Reply #20 |
30. The 787 is made in many places |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
IDFbunny (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #20 |
47. They HAVE left WA and are now in Chicago |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Well, yes - their headquarters |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
IDFbunny (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. After WA gave huge incentives they were given the finger |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. I sit here, shaking my head, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. South Carolina rejected Child Labor Laws, civil rights and even the Union itself. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Iowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. More evidence of the dumbing down of America. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. People forget what the unions did for the workers. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. They did a shitload of things for us, including |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. 50 years ago |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. No shit. Ray-guns was the beginning of all this |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Renaming Washington National Airport |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. DC citizens hated him just as much |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Of course they did, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. DC is a blue as the sky that's for sure |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Let's hope so |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. South Carolina. Joe Wilson. Mark Sanford. Strom Thurmond. Need I say more? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. What a lineup. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 12:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Well if it looks like a duck...you know the rest. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Zgrrl (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. Stupid is as stupid does... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. ugh..just a few days after Labor Day, too..... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. Blame Rush Limbaugh~! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
25. The managers no doubt are chomping at the bit to cut their |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pauldg0 (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:00 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Many of the managers will be out too.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 02:30 AM Response to Reply #26 |
36. I'm familiar with Boeing management from an insider's |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
IDFbunny (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 05:44 PM Response to Reply #25 |
48. Don't worry, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
27. Well, Ma'am, We Know Where Two hundred Idiots Can Be Readily Found Now.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Sir! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
28. Suckers... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:18 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. IAM is one of the really good unions too... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:58 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. hard to have any respect for folks who cut off their noses to spite their ideological faces |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
32. Hope they enjoy working at McDonalds/Wal Mart after their jobs get sent overseas. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
34. "We are pleased that hourly workers expressed their desire to deal directly with the company....." |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 02:08 AM Response to Original message |
35. This just in.......68 people will be laid off tomorrow...... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
happygoluckytoyou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 04:51 AM Response to Original message |
37. JOBS WILL MOVE FROM KANSAS.... they will shut Kansas plant... THAT WAS THE BRIBE |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 05:15 AM Response to Original message |
38. Were they wearing their "Kick me" signs? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
onager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
39. But once upon a time in SC... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
40. Dealing with the company "directly" on employment matters, eh? Can't wait to see those paychecks! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
41. Hey,SC, if at first you don't secede.... eom |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
42. Congratulations dumbasses |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
43. I don't know why so many SC'ers are anti-union. Usually, it's the people who'd benefit most from |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. They still remember Gen Sherman |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
nxylas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Makes me wonder what tactics management used to secure that vote to decertify |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Not pressure -- promise of bringing the jobs to SC |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
46. Temptation... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
CatholicEdHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
51. Sad to hear they did that |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
53. They don't need no steeekin' employment contract |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-12-09 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
54. Idiots. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Fri Apr 26th 2024, 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC