Regular readers are already up to speed on the Obama National Labor Relations Board's attempt to punish Boeing for opening a new production line in Right to Work South Carolina - and the National Right to Work Foundation's efforts to help Boeing employees. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore explain why the NLRB's actions are so pernicious:
The Obama administration's National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint last month against Boeing to block production of the company's 787 Dreamliner at a new assembly plant in South Carolina—a "right to-work" state with a law against compulsory union membership. If the NLRB has its way, Dreamliner assembly will return to Washington, a union-shop state, along with more than 1,000 jobs.
The NLRB's action, which Boeing will challenge at a hearing next month, is a big deal. It's the first time a federal agency has intervened to tell an American company where it can and cannot operate a plant within the U.S. It lays the foundation of a regulatory wall with one express purpose: to prevent the direct competition of right-to-work states with union-shop states. Why, as South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley recently asked on these pages, should Washington have any more right to these jobs than South Carolina?
The National Right to Work Foundation is offering free legal assistance to South Carolina workers affected by this complaint. If you work at Boeing's Charleston Dreamliner plant, we strongly encourage you to contact us today.
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NLRB versus Boeing
If indeed the NLRB is correct in protecting the union in Washington,
that means that our addresses, business and personal, become fixed, as in the former Soviet Union.
The union, the NLRB and the administration are Marxist, now becoming Marxist - Leninist, and soon to become Marxist - Leninist - Stalinist. As such, the unions become collectives with their bosses ( Commissars ) answering only to the administration, whose premier is Obama and Soros his agitprop guru.
Many of you are missing the
Many of you are missing the point of the NLRB complaint. The complaint is not to tie Boeing's hands on how or where the do business. The issue at hand is not whether Boeing can or can not have an assembly plant in South Carolina.
The issue is how it transpired and how Boeing communicated their plan. Boeing executives specifically stated they were planning to add production for 787 in Charleston so that they could avoid work stoppages due to a possible future union strike and production disruption.
That, my friends, is illegal. You can not, by federal law, state you are moving operations so as to punish and intimidate union employees for their right to collectively bargain (and strike if agreements can not be made).
FORCED unionization
In a word, HORSE HOCKEY!!!!! Boeing or any other company has the right to move wherever they choose. The lazy, stupid unions want to force the people who pay their salaries to do things THE UNION WAY. No same company wants to be put in a position of having the union thugs call a strike over some perceived grievence.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM TO MOVE, FREEDOM FROM UNIONS!!!!!! MAY ALL UNIONS GO OUT OF BUSINESS .... IF YOU CAN'T HOLD YOUR JOB ON YOUR OWN MERITS, YOU DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE IT. PERIOD, END OF DISCUSSION!!!!!
Forced unionization
I see first hand every day how the union protects lazy non productive employees, They grab money from me and give it to the Democratic party, how do they justify giving Obama over $400 million to get him elected, that's our union dues. that's money I don't want them to have. These unions must be stopped or we won't have any jobs or an economy in America. Go get them, and bring themm all down.
A very large leap from
A very large leap from wanting to avoid production disruption to punish and intimidation of union employees. How do you justify that leap? As far as I see it, the opening of the plant in Charleston in no way infringes on the legal (not a moral) right of union members in Washington to strike. In no way does it intimidate the workers that the company is prospering and adding jobs to the US economy. It does however aid in company profits from which the union members need in order to coerce (collective bargaining) higher wages and benefits. Under the disinfectant of daylight your leap is exposed as nothing more than propaganda.
Free Work state
How does the Labor Board and Obama justify this nonsence with so many jobs needed. We should have the right to decide if we want to be represented by a group/atwork 0r just do our job. We are a free country...let that stand in our work environment. We don't need big governmenrt...our president and his people...involved in our day to day work. If the government would stay out of the work place/unions for example, maybe the jobs would be there. This is scary !!!!