Seattle City Councilmember-elect shares radical idea with Boeing workers

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15. Sounds a little too much like Communism for my tastes.

And before you all gun me down, I am in a union and work for a company in the aviation industry.

It seems like there is always a crisis at Boeing with labor. And yet their chief competitor, Airbus, almost never has labor problems, and Airbus employees get paid better, better benefits, and their health care is the responsibility of the governments of Europe. The solution is for the United States to be more European in our politics. Do away with these Right to Work for Less laws. Institute universal health care through a single-payer mechanism. And lastly, governments should exert more control over corporations through legislation. Airbus is nationalized consortium, but that wouldn't even be necessary if our government would simply pass laws to protect workers.

We need to wage war at the ballot box. "Taking over a factory", or publicly traded company for that matter, is a pretty ridiculous notion.