{"id":12347,"date":"2013-02-13T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2013-02-15T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:19:31","slug":"obama-touts-right-to-work-nc-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/obama-touts-right-to-work-nc-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"Obama touts right-to-work NC manufacturing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On his first post-State of the Union whistle stop, pro-union, anti-right-to-work President Obama\u00a0came to\u00a0<\/a>Linamar Corporation outside Asheville, North Carolina. Somehow Obama\u2019s advance team missed this: Linamar is a non-union shop in a right-to-work state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we attract new jobs to America by investing in new sources of energy and new infrastructure and the next generation of high-wage, high-tech American manufacturing,\u201d said the president to Canadian-owned Linamar\u2019s 160 workers. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I wanted to come down here to Asheville, because there\u2019s a good story to tell here.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Linamar didn\u2019t open in an abandoned Volvo plant two years ago because of Obama\u2019s federal spending initiatives. It opened here because North Carolina is a right-to-work state \u2013 a fact that union puppet Obama and his party vehemently oppose. Indeed, Obama\u2019s National Labor Relations Board has fought manufacturing firms like Boeing from moving to right-to-work South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Linamar\u2019s biggest North Carolina customer is Big Labor-enemy #1 Caterpillar Corporation which has brought a steady drumbeat of manufacturing jobs to the right-to-work south (part of a \u201csouthern strategy\u201dthat unions loath<\/a>) \u2013 and away from Obama\u2019s Big Labor Illinois Midwest. That should be a lesson not only to President Obama \u2013 but also to Michiganians who recently made their state more competitive with right-to-work legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight to work is something we talk about in our marketing,\u201d says Ben Teague, a spokesman for the Asheville Chamber of Commerce who confirms that both Caterpillar and Linamark officials like North Carolina\u2019s labor climate. \u201cWe fell it is a competitive edge. It means you get workers that want to work at a reasonable wage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president seems remarkably ignorant of this reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mentioned this last night \u2014 Caterpillar, which I know you guys supply, they\u2019re bringing jobs back from Japan,\u201d the president told the non-union Linamark crowd. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing this trend of what we call insourcing, not just outsourcing. And the reason is because America has got outstanding workers. \u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, outstanding workers \u2013 but in particular, outstanding NON-UNION workers in right-to-work states like North Carolina. That\u2019s what\u2019s driving insourcing.<\/p>\n

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On his first post-State of the Union whistle stop, pro-union, anti-right-to-work President Obama\u00a0came to\u00a0Linamar Corporation outside Asheville, North Carolina. Somehow Obama\u2019s advance team missed this: Linamar is a non-union shop in a right-to-work state. \u201cI believe we attract new jobs to America by investing in new sources of energy and new infrastructure and the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12349,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions\/12349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}