George Will on NLRB-Boeing case

NLRB: A Field of Nightmares

Respected columnist and baseball enthusiast George Will knows that President Obama's radicalized National Labor Relations Board has thrown a beanball in regards to the Boeing case. From his latest missive of wisdom:

The economy is mired in a sluggish recovery. But the destructive Obama administration is trying to debilitate the world's largest aerospace corporation and the nation's leading exporter, which has 155,000 U.S. employees and whose 738 million shares are held by individual and institutional investors, mutual funds and retirement accounts. Why? Organized labor, primarily and increasingly confined to government workers, can;t convince private sector workers that it adds more value to their lives than it subtracts with dues and productivity-damaging work rules. Hence unions' reliance on government coercion where persuasion has failed.

The NLRB's complaint isn't a conscientious administration of the law. It is intimidation of business leaders who contemplate locating operations in right-to-work states.

The NLRB's attack on Boeing illustrates the Obama administration's penchant for lawlessness displayed when, disregarding bankruptcy law, it traduced the rights of Chrysler's secured creditors. Now the NLRB is suing Arizona and South Dakota because they recently, and by large majorities, passed constitutional amendments guaranteeing the right to secret ballots in unionization elections — ballots that complicate coercion by union organizers.

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