Is Boeing Morally Right Or Wrong?
1. As an individual company in a capitalist society, yes, a company should be allowed to choose where it locates it’s production. Plain and simple, according to the ideas of capitalist society. Now looking at whether or not that decision is morally right or wrong has no bearing in a capitalist society. It is all about getting the most bang for your buck. As stated in the text, “Companies try to lower operating costs in order to raise profits or cut prices and win market share, not out of selfless desire to benefit customers.” I agree wholeheartedly. Also, the higher ups in a large corporation such as Boeing have very little connection to the lower workers that actually produce their product, thus separating them emotionally. As they say “Empathy
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The issue here is that I believe that Boeing COULD and should simply do a better job of managing labor relations with its union, but they don’t HAVE to. Companies have the right to move to nonunion states, just not in retaliation to strikes (which is the main complaint) The case study in our text involved the striking of around 27,250 employees, not just in Seattle, but also in Kansas and Oregon. The machinists were unsatisfied with the Boeing’s offer to increase their pay by 11% over the next three years and also offered $34,000 in bonuses and benefits. Spokesman of Boeing, Tim Healy, stated, “"We are certainly disappointed...We were certainly hopeful that members would look at that offer and the amount of money they would have in their pocket over the next three years, and that they would vote in their best interests,” (Isidore, …show more content…
Boeing said it would “vigorously contest” the labor board’s complaint. “This claim is legally frivolous and represents a radical departure from both N.L.R.B. and Supreme Court precedent,” said J. Michael Luttig, a Boeing executive vice president and its general counsel. “Boeing has every right under both federal law and its collective bargaining agreement to build additional U.S. production capacity outside of the Puget Sound region,” (Greenhouse, 2011). Boeing also criticized the timing of the NLRB’s complaint as it came after the production facility in South Carolina had already been constructed and over 1,000 employees had been
The issue here is that I believe that Boeing COULD and should simply do a better job of managing labor relations with its union, but they don’t HAVE to. Companies have the right to move to nonunion states, just not in retaliation to strikes (which is the main complaint) The case study in our text involved the striking of around 27,250 employees, not just in Seattle, but also in Kansas and Oregon. The machinists were unsatisfied with the Boeing’s offer to increase their pay by 11% over the next three years and also offered $34,000 in bonuses and benefits. Spokesman of Boeing, Tim Healy, stated, “"We are certainly disappointed...We were certainly hopeful that members would look at that offer and the amount of money they would have in their pocket over the next three years, and that they would vote in their best interests,” (Isidore, …show more content…
Boeing said it would “vigorously contest” the labor board’s complaint. “This claim is legally frivolous and represents a radical departure from both N.L.R.B. and Supreme Court precedent,” said J. Michael Luttig, a Boeing executive vice president and its general counsel. “Boeing has every right under both federal law and its collective bargaining agreement to build additional U.S. production capacity outside of the Puget Sound region,” (Greenhouse, 2011). Boeing also criticized the timing of the NLRB’s complaint as it came after the production facility in South Carolina had already been constructed and over 1,000 employees had been