Marathon Pundit: NLRB overreach: Pelosi hypocrisy edition

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

NLRB overreach: Pelosi hypocrisy edition

Why no union, Pelosi?

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is a hypocrite. She and her husband own a vineyard and a winery in Napa Valley, as well as a large chunk of a resort hotel. None of them are unionized.

But in the San Francisco liberal's view, "What is good enough for me is not good enough for thee."

From Brett McMahon, writing for the Workforce Fairness Institute:

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still wreaking havoc even after being dethroned from her seat of authority in the House. She took to the airwaves declaring that the new Boeing plant in South Carolina that has been the topic of debate after Obama's National Labor Relations Board filed suit against it – should be shut down if it isn't unionized.

If that's not complete biased favoritism to Big Labor's deep political spending pockets, I don't know what is.

Boeing opened a new plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state that created over 1,000 jobs. The union allies in Washington were quick to jump on Boeing's back, claiming that Boeing shouldn't be allowed to open the plant, and should instead be forced to open the plant in union-friendly Washington State.

From an Investors Business Daily op-ed:

"Do you think it's right that Boeing has to close down that plant in South Carolina because it's nonunion?" asked host [CNBC] Maria Bartiromo.

Pelosi's quick answer was "yes."

Pelosi said she preferred the plant in the right-to-work state would unionize; failing that, the National Labor Relations Board is right to shut down the plant where Boeing hopes to build its Dreamliner passenger aircraft.

Never mind that workers at the South Carolina plant were once unionized and voted to kick the union out. The Vought Aircraft plant, which Boeing purchased in 2009, was once one of Boeing's suppliers.