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Ken Langone on Boeing’s Union Battle
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Home Depot Co-Founder Ken Langone on the union battle facing Boeing.
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- Date Jun 9, 2011
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Home Depot Co-Founder Ken Langone on the union battle facing Boeing.
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Jim McNerney will make sure.
His company's interest which includes the employees which includes -- -- which includes vendors.
Will be taken care of and protect that I have complete -- I know Jim well I have enormous respect form.
He's a great businessmen in the great leader Jim will not allow his company to be the victim of state plan.
But now you have the administration really TV on our base saying -- offense good.
I think he would welcome that that's what course of four.
You know what I see cannot see not considered Boeing but other companies reading about this watching -- business.
-- in this you know I don't need -- grief I don't need to plus the -- -- -- Those companies will go -- the -- wayside.
Eventually you look.
There's a lot of challenges for business out there there's there's the pressure of the economy itself.
There is through the stress between workers and shareholders.
And management.
-- was -- that's part of everyday living in business.
But I honest to god believe.
At the end of the day the American people don't war.
State organized.
Industrial activity.
The so what is -- this'll like in China booths governments as you can go plant David Campbell one here.
Don't temperature this is -- unions Waterloo in South Carolina.
Look at the numbers of the water look at the numbers of the union movement 50% of all construction in New York City today is -- -- 50%.
And if you didn't have a public unions -- you don't have to teachers union union membership would be in a panic but do you.
Think that it is it going somehow.
His forests to pull those jobs that would -- the factory down to -- that could happen.
What's to stop companies and from saying China here we come in Mexico it would come -- -- with -- I think it's a big -- I don't think -- at the end of the day I can't believe.
Bristol is no jobs -- from the state of Washington non business jobs gained there's actually yes and number two.
It's within the prerogatives of running a company that you decide where you wanted to look plant when you want to build -- plant.
The fact that somebody said well we had to go -- because -- -- union problems that's a stretch do you think President Obama doesn't like business.
Doesn't like our business actually that's like this -- all they went out.
If Kim I don't know but it's clear to me by his actions he does not what he doesn't realize the value the proof right now -- -- out when it's been spent.
-- still like create new jobs we have to do.
Private sector creates jobs for home Depot's three of us Bernie -- myself 325000.
People.
I had a girl yesterday from our -- lukewarm toward me on the phone she started as a -- -- him.
-- -- -- fourteen years ago.
She is tonight the district manager of eight -- now I mean that's what job creation --