More NLRB-Boeing stories

Here is the latest in the story of NLRB overreach in the Boeing case.

From the Washington Times:

Last month, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint against Boeing's decision to open a new aircraft plant in South Carolina. The agency charges that the manufacturer's expansion plans constitute "retaliation" against unions, including the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union. Here’s the back story.

For years, Seattle-based Boeing has dealt with burdensome labor policies and contentious unions in Washington state. It has endured multiple lengthy strikes since 1989 and lost several business opportunities as a result. The good news: Today, the demand for the company’s Dreamliner 787 is so great that Boeing needs to build a new plant to fill the additional orders.

But where? South Carolina's business-friendly environment, significant tax incentives and right-to-work status led Boeing to build near Charleston, rather than Seattle.

Boeing has spent millions (by some estimates, nearly $2 billion) and already employed nearly 1,000 on the project. Now, the NLRB says Boeing must close the facility unless it also builds one in Washington, where employees can be forced to join unions.

Writing for Fox Nation, Sarah Palin:

President Obama has the opportunity to prove that he cares about keeping jobs for working class families in America. He can speak up about his appointees at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who have their boots on The Boeing Company's neck. Does the President support the rights of businesses and working class people in right-to-work states to make sound decisions without government regulatory agencies unfairly punishing them?

Does the President realize the real concern here is not that businesses will choose to locate in one state over another? It's that businesses will choose to locate in other countries because thanks to the Obama administration's job killing policies and over-reaching regulatory boards the business climate in the United States is growing toxic. South Carolina's Senator Jim DeMint reminded President Obama that the President said in his State of the Union address: "We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business." I agree with this sentiment, Mr. President. If we want to keep good paying jobs for working class families in the United States then you shouldn't pit South Carolina against Washington state because eventually every state will suffer when businesses declare "enough is enough" with these tactics and decide to relocate in more business-friendly countries.

Writing for Human Events, Newt Gingrich:

The latest job killing effort by this administration comes from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which has filed a frivolous and devastating complaint against the Boeing Company.

It is frivolous because the complaint is unprecedented in the 76 year history of the National Labor Relations Act.

It is devastating because the complaint puts thousands of jobs in South Carolina at risk.

Moreover, if this complaint is successful, the precedent set could prevent millions of jobs from being created throughout the United States, as entrepreneurs and businesses decide whether to invest in our country…or outside it.

The Daily Caller:

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected a question on National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) actions against the Boeing Company in South Carolina on Wednesday, and the state's Republican Gov. Nikki Haley isn't pleased.

"Well, it's obviously been in the news, so we are aware of it, but I would refer any questions about it to the NLRB because it is an independent agency, and we do not get involved in particular enforcement matters of independent agencies," Carney said. "I don"t have a reaction to this from the President. And I think the fact that he's weighed in on outside issues doesn't mean that he will weigh in on an independent agency's enforcement action."

At a Tuesday Chamber of Commerce press conference, Haley said the "independent agency' defense would be a "cop out" and the administration should address the issue. Now that the administration has used the "independent agency" argument, Haley told The Daily Caller she's disappointed, comparing the president's choice to refuse to take a stand on this issue to whether he’d ignore an independent agency misapplying Obamacare.

"Somehow I don't think President Obama would stay silent if an independent health care agency were to enforce ObamaCare in a way he didn’t like," Haley said in an mail to TheDC. "He's putting politics over principle. If President Obama believes in the bedrock principle that any company in America should be free to locate its business in the state of its choice, then he should speak out against the NLRB's lawsuit, instead of ducking for cover at the behest of his big labor union political allies."

The City Wire:

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe [Note--he's a Democrat] said Wednesday (May 11) that a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling against Boeing could be "detrimental" to Arkansas' economic development efforts.

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