Marathon Pundit: Big Labor and radical NLRB conspiring in Boeing case

Saturday, May 07, 2011

Big Labor and radical NLRB conspiring in Boeing case

Once again I'm returning to the law-inventing by President Obama's radicalized National Labor Relations Board. Under Obama what Big Labor wants, Big Labor gets. The latest instance of course is the law-invention by the NLRB designed to prevent Boeing from opening a factory in South Carolina, a right-to-work state.

The White House is beginning to distance itself from this outrage.

This is an independent agency's enforcement action," a White House official told Fox News. "The White House does not get involved in particular enforcement matters."

But what about this Audacity of Hope nugget from Obama?

So I owe those unions. When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away.

Union card check zealot and former AFL-CIO and SEIU lawyer Craig Becker was placed on the NLRB in a recess appointment---probably because of a phone call from a Big Labor guy such as Richard Trumka.

More on Trumka from Pajamas Media:

Beyond Becker, there remains Richard Trumka, the man who spends a lot of time either at the White House or on the phone with someone there. He heads up the AFL-CIO, which is affiliated with the union at the center of the Boeing controversy: the not so great IAM [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers].

Trumka and his fellow union bosses spend by their own estimate about a half a billion dollars on politics. They don't do that for nothing. They have bought positions in and access to the Obama administration. In Wisconsin, they bought the president's overt and then tacit support for the fleebaggers. And nationally, they're buying the National Labor Relations Board, which has issued a ruling that threatens state right to work laws everywhere if it is allowed to stand. It's possible that the NLRB ruling could indirectly force unionization on the 23 states that have right to work laws, which would revive union labor by force after decades of declining union membership nationwide. The Boeing case may set a precedent for ruling against a corporation for the sin of seeking out states with friendly economic climates, which these days tend to be the right to work states.

All this tells us what Mr. Trumka discusses so regularly with the White House: Their next move in the quest to destroy Americans' right to live and work as free of Big Labor as they want.