Marathon Pundit: Pawlenty rips NLRB overreach in Boeing case

Boeing headquaters, Chicago

The antipathy continues to spread over President Obama's radicalized National Labor Relations Board's inventing of a law involving right-to-work states. It wants to prevent Boeing from building its Dreamliner 787 in South Carolina.

Now former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, writing for National Review Online's Corner Blog, weighs in.

Politics aside, the economics of the NRLB’s suit could not be worse. Boeing is hiring nearly 1,000 new employees in its new South Carolina plant and has invested $2 billion in the project. Instead of prioritizing jobs and growing the American economy for all hard-working Americans, the Obama administration is now dictating where companies are allowed to create new jobs.

Understand that I have no grudge against private-sector unions. To the contrary, I grew up in a union family in South St. Paul, once the home of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants. I myself was a union member at a grocery store to help pay for school, and I appreciated the job. Unions historically have played an important role in ensuring safety and fairness in American industry. But today, Big Labor has joined arms with Big Government to actually stop job creation.

Private businesses should be allowed build new branches or plants anywhere in America — in fact, we should be encouraging it!

Sadly, President Obama is doing the opposite.