More "Winning" for American Workers

A lockout is a strike in reverse: An employer bars union-represented workers from coming to work. In this case, Honeywell bargained with a union over changes to employee health insurance. The union did not agree to the company’s proposal—but the union did not strike.

In May 2016, the company  locked out workers in Indiana and New Jersey who manufacture brakes for aircraft.

The lockout last 10 months.

During this time, the company hired replacement workers. Production was maintained, and pressure was applied to union-workers who were out on the street without a job because their union did not agree to terms.

After 10 months, the company withdrew its health insurance offer and maintained the status quo policy.

The union filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Honeywell for locking out workers without continuing to bargain.

Today, President Trump’s General Counsel— the chief prosecutor for NLRB complaints against employers and unions—withdrew the union’s complaint without explanation or comment.

If he were telling it from his boss’s point of view, he might have tweeted, “This is more winning for the American worker— just like the workers at the Indianapolis Carrier plant who are being laid off this month.”