\nWashington, DC (May 16, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure request with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on the heels of the agency\u2019s recent announcement that it will prosecute airline manufacturer Boeing Corp.\n<\/p>\n
\nIf International Association of Machinists (IAM) union officials and the NLRB are successful, over 1,000 Boeing employees in South Carolina would be out of work as Boeing will be forced to relocate the aircraft assembly jobs to Washington State which lacks Right to Work protections for employees.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe NLRB\u2019s acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, issued the complaint against Boeing late last month at the behest of IAM union bosses. In 2009, Boeing opened the new plant to produce 787 Dreamliner airplanes in South Carolina, largely because South Carolina is a Right to Work state that protects workers from being required to join or pay dues to a union just to get or keep a job.\n<\/p>\n
\nFoundation President Mark Mix submitted the FOIA inquiry on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn the request, Mix asks that the agency produce all the documentation regarding communications between NLRB officials and third parties, including communications with Obama administration officials; officials from the offices of the Governors of Washington and Oregon; and any other federal, state, or local government agency personnel regarding Boeing or the IAM union, the opening of the company\u2019s facility in South Carolina, and about the NLRB\u2019s complaint against Boeing itself.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOnce again the Obama Labor Board is putting union boss priorities ahead of the rights and well-being of individual employees,\u201d said Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work. \u201cIf the NLRB succeeds in its prosecution of Boeing and Boeing is forced to move its production at the whim of IAM union bosses, over 1,000 jobs in South Carolina would be eliminated and a troubling precedent would be set.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn addition, the National Right to Work Foundation has ramped up its legal program to assist all current or prospective Boeing employees who could lose their jobs as a result of the NLRB\u2019s aggressive posture toward independent-minded workers.\u201d\n<\/p>\n