?The Workers Should Take Over the Factory!?: Newly-Elected Socialist Has Some Radical Ideas for Seattle | TheBlaze.com
Newly elected Socialist (no joke, was elected as a member of the Socialist Party) in Seattle, WA (I know....surprise, surprise, surprise...) speaking at a union gathering, talking about Boeing's proposed deal to build 777X jets at the Everett facility. In return for building there for next 8 yrs, Boeing would get to reduce some union pensions.
Ms. Socialist taking a few pages directly from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged involving the 20th Century Motor Corporation (They decided to run a pure democratic shop for the good of the workers. Needless to say, people took advantage of each other and the company quickly failed. Go read it, it's a good book and shows some scary parallels to current events.)
Small quote from the article here that says it all.
This stuff is just scary....
Newly elected Socialist (no joke, was elected as a member of the Socialist Party) in Seattle, WA (I know....surprise, surprise, surprise...) speaking at a union gathering, talking about Boeing's proposed deal to build 777X jets at the Everett facility. In return for building there for next 8 yrs, Boeing would get to reduce some union pensions.
Ms. Socialist taking a few pages directly from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged involving the 20th Century Motor Corporation (They decided to run a pure democratic shop for the good of the workers. Needless to say, people took advantage of each other and the company quickly failed. Go read it, it's a good book and shows some scary parallels to current events.)
Small quote from the article here that says it all.
If Boeing tries to move out, Sawant said, union workers should simply take over the Everett airplane-building factory.
She referred to this as “democratic ownership.”
“The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don’t need the executives. The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do,” she said.
She said that once workers take over the plant, they should start building things everyone can use.
“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,” she told KIRO-TV.
This stuff is just scary....