NLRB to companies: you must use union workers.

[reality_hammer]

WTF? The NLRB is suing Boeing for opening up a plant in a right to work state. Apparently economic slavery is not just being quietly implemented by the Obama administration any more but has become an open policy enforced by the police powers of the state.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint against the Boeing Company

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[megd]

Considering the DoD just gave a major contract to Boeing to build a plane that's 6 years away from even being close to production over EADS which has a plane ready to go as a reward for Seattle going Dem and Alabama being a Republican state, they own Boeing.

[izuko]

Dunno... I'm fine with that. American military equipment should be built by American companies in America.

[megd]

While the company may be French, they were set to build in Mobile, Alabama using American workers on a former American airbase.

In today's global economy, you're going to find lots of multi-national companies. It matters more where they create jobs than where the headquarters is.

[izuko]

I prefer companies that don't need to be nationalized should we end up on unfortunate sides of a war.

[megd]

And I prefer generating jobs in my hometown, Especially when the city's struggling.

I also prefer getting the military things they need as quickly as possible.

[izuko]

Understandable. However, your hometown is not my hometown. I have no particular loyalties to it. Nor does (I hope) the federal government. Every city needs jobs, these days (except for DC).

[megd]

Given how the awarding went down, it was incredibly politically motivated. it was far cheaper to have them built in Alabama, but since it was Alabama, Obama made sure to award it to a Democratic state. Even the scoring dictated that EADs was the lowest responsible bidder. Because of my job, I know that in government contracts, normally, absent an incredible showing, the lowest responsible bidder must be awarded the contract or the government doesn't pay the tab. So I'm not sure how they swung that.

There's actually a long history of politically motivated decisions made in military supplying. The location where the EADs plant was going is Brookley Field, which was a thriving air force air station until Lyndon Johnson ordered it closed following Alabama's support of Barry Goldwater. At the time it was the largest base closure in history (and may still be).

It's also a right to work state. God forbid Obama let anything go to a Republican right to work state. We might think on our own.

[izuko]

I'm hardly a Boeing fan (I prefer Northrop Grumman), but the idea of using only American contractors for major military purchases isn't exactly brand new.

[jpfuel]

I had issues with EADS as Airbuses are garbage. Working at an airport for several years and getting to know the planes and mechs and you learn that ABI is horrid to get good info from, the planes break for stupid reasons, and the software is far too often in conflict with the hardware. The Airbus that crashed in NY after 9/11 had the tail fall off because the simulator for the plane does not match the actions of the plane. ABI sorta forgot to mention things like on the ground the rudder moves at half the rate it does in the air, and btw, never use the rudder in the air. They blamed the pilots of course. They are also worse than Boeing at meeting timelines and budgets...so yeah, they had lowest bid, but chances are about even that the final cost would exceed what Boeing would eventually come to cost wise.

Now the whole crony crap you point out is valid, but that needs to change, and some of the components were to be made in the plant NLRB is preventing.