Posted on 05/06/2011 6:22:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The National Labor Relations Board's recent challenge to Boeing over the second 787 production line is malign nonsense. Laughably meritless on its face, it nonetheless poses a serious threat to both economic recovery and economic freedom. Such things must always be confronted and overcome.
Briefly, the complaint filed by the NLRB's acting general counsel says Boeing engaged in unfair labor practices as it considered its expansion plans. So, 17 months after the company announced its decision and subsequently invested billions of dollars, hiring more than 1,000 workers in North Charleston, S.C., the complaint would have the company move the work to Washington. The breathtaking audacity is beyond caricature.
In a more sane world, business leaders could briefly mock the bureaucrats' outrageous overreach and move on to productive work, like creating jobs, building planes, and expanding economic opportunity.
Instead, the NLRB complaint casts a shadow over a sputtering recovery stretching from Everett to North Charleston. Read narrowly as a beef between the union and the company, the complaint is significant in its own right. But that's too limited a view. What's at stake here is the fundamental right of any employer to act in the best interests of its customers, shareholders and, yes, its employees by expanding to where the best business conditions prevail.
The recent action raises significant legal, political and economic considerations.
The complaint says Boeing retaliated against the union for past and potential strike activity, made coercive statements and threatened to remove work from the region. The NLRB's charges are factually inaccurate, unprecedented and contrary to precedent. To support the retaliation claim, the NLRB must demonstrate that the company acted with anti-union animus and harmed Washington machinists.
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I hear McDonald is hiring.
Andy Stern and his UNION THUGS demanding payback from Obama. Pure and simple! Its the Chicago (Marxist) way.
Obama is a union stooge. Unemployment is at 9% and Obama is still paying back the unions for putting him in office. Disgraceful.
Great. Instead of 2 all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce and cheese, it's gonna be 2 bun tops, spittle sauce, mustard and a pancake.
The unions are going to have to launder a billion dollars of campaign cash. Obama can’t abandon them yet.
I hope Boeing sues for damages. There are so many stories of abuse of power from this administration floating below the surface left untouched by the majority of media.
Nobody can kill jobs like the Democrats and their unions.
You are close to the truth.
I got a couple of big macs a couple months back and the patty’s were 3/4 the size of the bun and about 1/16th of an inch thick.
Cost was like $6.35
McDonald does serve meat. He buys the chicken ***holes from the Colonel.
“The complaint says Boeing retaliated against the union for past and potential strike activity, made coercive statements and threatened to remove work from the region. “
Even if it’s true. So what?
Since when can’t a company relocate because a Union is try to hold them hostage?
Obambi and his cronies need to but out.
The entire nation should be up in arms over this!!!
The Obama NLRB is getting bad press out of this. Of course, I haven’t seen an article mention the fact that the head of the NLRB couldn’t make it through Senate confirmation and is an Obama recess appointment.
The Obama NLRB is getting bad press out of this. Of course, I haven’t seen an article mention the fact that the head of the NLRB couldn’t make it through Senate confirmation and is an Obama recess appointment.
The Obama NLRB is getting bad press out of this. Of course, I haven’t seen an article mention the fact that the head of the NLRB couldn’t make it through Senate confirmation and is an Obama recess appointment.
The Obama NLRB is getting bad press out of this. Of course, I haven’t seen an article mention the fact that the head of the NLRB couldn’t make it through Senate confirmation and is an Obama recess appointment.
I read you the first time.
Sorry.
If you're going to deal with a corrupt, dysfunctional, government, you may as well do it in a Third World sh!t-hole where the labor costs are very low and you don't have to abide by strict environmental regulations.
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