From Marketwatch:
A federal board's decision to block Boeing Co. from moving operations to South Carolina will have a "chilling effect" on companies considering opening facilities in so-called right-to-work states, a Boeing executive said Tuesday.From the Washington Times:
"This is an overreach," Jim Albaugh, head of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes unit, said in a speech at an industry luncheon, in the company's latest criticism leveled at the National Labor Relations Board ruling.
Unions have good reason to thank President Obama, who has gone to unprecedented lengths to reverse demographic trends and public sentiment to help unions cling to power. In the past 100 years, Americans have never thought less of organized labor. This disenchantment didn't happen overnight - Gallup polls show that Americans increasingly disapprove of labor unions and think they should have less power.Red State has a question: Why are Obama and union bosses working to destroy companies and jobs?
Given this negative perception of unions, it is not surprising that union membership has dropped dramatically: Twenty-four percent of America ’s workforce was unionized in 1979 while only 12 percent are unionized today. Trying their best to buck this 30-year trend, unions began lobbying for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) - more commonly known as "card check" - during the tail end of the Bush administration. Card check would have stopped unions’ membership from deteriorating further. It would have allowed unions to bully workers into unionization by eliminating the private ballot during union elections.
After spending hundreds of millions of dollars during the 2008 election cycle to help Democrats secure both chambers of Congress, unions had their best chance to have card check signed into law. However, the 111th Congress came and went without even a vote on EFCA. Constituents barred their representatives from even considering this legislation. It turns out the same Americans who don't want to join a union in the first place don't want to be forced into a union.
With Congress no longer a viable vehicle to implement pro-union policy, the Obama administration began using federal agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the National Mediation Board (NMB) to achieve similar ends. Appointing former union officials to both federal agencies, Mr. Obama's unabashedly pro-union appointees went to work writing rules to facilitate unionization.
The question needs to be asked: Is it ignorance or malice? There was a time after the subprime mortgage meltdown when, if sound decisions on policy and financial initiatives had occurred, the American economy may not have been hobbled as badly, its credit rating might not have been downgraded, the recession might have been curtailed and so many Americans might not have been so negatively affected. However, rather than helping a recovery by letting the quasi-free market adjust, contract and expand again, at almost every turn, Barack Obama and the union appointees and crony capitalists within his administration are, whether out of malice or ignorance, seemingly doing everything they can to destroy an already fragile economy. It's really no longer a question of "if," but "why."Look for overregulation to be a big issue in 2012. From the Daily Caller:
When voters are presented with the facts, they overwhelmingly side with Boeing, with 78 percent believing an employer should have the right to open a plant in any state.The National Association of Manufacturers wants Congress to pass the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act. It is directed at NLRB overreach.
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