GE chief backs Boeing in labor dispute

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http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20110714/NEWS/307140009/GE-chief-backs-Boeing-labor-dispute

The leader of General Electric Co. said in Greenville on Wednesday that he sides with The Boeing Co. in its dispute with the National Labor Relations Board involving a new aircraft plant in North Charleston.

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, who also chairs a council that advises President Obama on job creation, said the NLRB sent a bad signal that rocked the business world with its legal complaint that Boeing built the plant in right-to-work South Carolina to retaliate against the machinists' union.

“You've got a world-class, high-tech, job-creating force that's coming into South Carolina. I just can't think of one reason why we'd want to slow that down, not one,” Immelt said while talking to reporters during a visit to GE's complex in Greenville.

“I'm way in support of the Boeing team on this one.”




***& people wonder why unions are saying 'don't take our support for granted'.

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1. What else is new?

when has there ever been a corporation that supported labor.

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2. immelt has the presidents ear.

that's what makes this stand out.

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3. He's not only one of his ilk.