NLRB overreach roundup

Here is the latest on the radicalized-National Labor Relations Board and the Boeing case.

The Daily Caller:

Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, expressed confidence that Republicans will win the fight against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) power grab in South Carolina. "We're going to win that one," Hatch told The Daily Caller, referring to the NLRB's recent charge against The Boeing Company for plans to open a non-union factory in the southern state.

In remarks to the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) at the National Press Club on Friday, Hatch compared what the NLRB is doing to judicial activism.

Hatch is one of several Republican senators who signed onto a letter Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, wrote to President Obama on Thursday demanding he immediately rescind nominations for the NLRB's Acting General Counsel, Lafe Solomon, and board member Craig Becker.

"The NLRB, at the behest of Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon, has taken unprecedented legal action against The Boeing Company to prevent it from expanding productions into South Carolina, a state that assures workers the freedom not to join a union as a condition of employment," the letter reads. "We consider this an attack on millions of workers in 22 right-to-work states, as well as a government-led act of intimidation against American companies that should have the freedom to choose to build plants in right-to-work states."

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

The Boeing decision to locate a plant in the Palmetto State upset the union bosses in Seattle, where Boeing has major operations. Boeing is still hiring in Washington state and has added 2,000 jobs to support its operations there, but the unions aren't satisfied. They want it all, and if non-union workers in another part of the country suffer because of it, that's OK with them.

As has become painfully obvious in recent years, the Democratic Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of unionized labor, and the unions are calling in a chit. The payback is coming from the Democrat-controlled National Labor Relations Board, which is going to court in an outrageous attempt to block the start-up of Boeing's South Carolina Dreamliner operation, into which Boeing already has sunk billions of dollars. The NLRB's un-elected bureaucrats claim the establishment of the plant constitutes illegal retaliation against unions for strikes against Boeing in Seattle, which is not in a right-to-work state.

Most people would view Boeing's action not as "retaliation," but as a logical and justifiable business decision. The strikes in Seattle cost Boeing and its stockholders hundreds of millions of dollars, and it makes perfect sense for Boeing to geographically diversify its manufacturing base so as not to be held hostage by the unions.

NLRB members may claim to be acting in the defense of workers, but what about working men and women in the Palmetto State? Does the NLRB and the current administration care about them?

The Charlerston Post and Courier:

The headlines and rhetoric already ring from coast to coast.

"Protracted and costly legal battle that could wind its way to the U.S. Supreme Court."

"Biggest union fight in recent years."

The complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board against Boeing claims the company moved a production facility and thousands of jobs to South Carolina to retaliate against the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers for past strikes in Washington state.

I would suggest another headline might be more appropriate:

"Federal agency seeks to undermine national security."

The Detroit News:

It comes as no surprise that Big Labor will do all it can to thwart capitalism and free markets.

But the National Labor Relations Board (complete with President Obama's hand-picked General Counsel and class warrior Lafe Solomon) decision to hold up Boeing's business plans in right-to-work South Carolina at the request of its union masters is both offensive and indefensible.

If upheld, this precedent will do incredible damage to Michigan because no company executive in their right mind would ever look to a forced-union state such as ours and think it would be a good place to set up shop - knowing that if they wanted to expand into a right-to-work state the NLRB's labor toadies could prohibit that move.

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