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| US Rep. Tim Scott |
As regular readers to this blog know, that is what the radicalized National Labor Relations Board is doing to Boeing. It doesn't want the Chicago-based aerospace giant to open its 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina because it is a right-to-work state. It's the first commercial jet facility Boeing has built outside of Washington state. Oh, Boeing has added jobs there since it broke ground in South Carolina.
On Thursday the House of Representatives will take up the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act, H.R. 2587, which will prevent the NLRB from blocking movements of factories and facilities.
Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) is the lead sponsor of the bill. He held a bloggers' conference call this afternoon.
"If the NLRB succeeds," Scott said, "It will send a chilling message to job creators throughout the nation and also throughout the world." I wasn't aware of this, but Scott told us that a former NLRB chairman, Peter Schaumber, said that Canadian companies with whom he has worked told him that they would "think twice before doing business in the United States as a result of [the Boeing] case."
"When you start attacking jobs in right-to-work state," Scott remarked, "you also attack jobs in unionized states." The job creators will decide to set up shop in other nations, Scott predicts.
A big-picture guy, Scott isn't afraid to use the "S" word--socialism, which he brought up when he answered my question. "What you have is an allergic throughout South Carolina as it relates to the entire topic and the very philosophy that undergirds this bigger, stronger government," Scott told me. "The people become weaker because it takes more money to fund it.
"We are in the midst of a philosophical war in this country," the House freshman continued, "and we must win that war today."
Scott is hoping for a Republican Senate and a GOP President in 2013 "who understands that the greatness of America is not found in the halls of Congress or the rooms of the White House--they are found in the homes of the average American."
Certainly, although Scott didn't say it, the greatness of America is not found in the NLRB, especially one with a recess-appointed general counsel and a board member placed on it in the same manner.
Scott is also working on a bill with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that will mandate secret ballot elections when workers are asked to join a union. Unions will have to be recertified every three years if that bill becomes law.
As for the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act, Scott urges citizens to contact their member of Congress and urge them to vote "Yes" on this bill. You can fill out this form to do just that. Or use this letter.
And let's turn our boat away from this unhappy command-economy journey.
Related posts:
Report from the bloggers' call with Gov. Nikki Haley on the NLRB-Boeing case
Ex-NLRB chairman denounces partisan Obama board
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