National Labor Relations Board Engaging in Thuggery Against Boeing

WASHINGTON — The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday accused Boeing of union busting and retaliating against its Washington state workers for past strikes by moving to produce its new Dreamliner planes at a nonunion plant in South Carolina.

Boeing vowed to fight the NLRB bid to compel the aircraft giant to make the next-generation aircraft at its current plant in Everett, Wash., instead of a half-million-square-foot factory under construction in North Charleston, S.C. The Dreamliner project has been dogged by delays, cost overruns and testing mishaps.

Boeing Executive Vice President Michael Luttig blasted the ruling as “frivolous,” said the company will fight it in court and expressed confidence that production of the 787s will begin as scheduled this summer at its new North Charleston plant.

“Boeing has every right under both federal law and its collective bargaining agreement to build additional U.S. production capacity outside of the Puget Sound region,” Luttig said.

The Miami Herald

Who the hell does the NLRB think they are in attempting to force a company to manufacture a product or build a plant in certain states they see appropriate.  They have no power or Constitutional authority to make any such decisions.  This is plain old union thuggery that is typical of the labor movement in this country.  The NLRB is acting outside the law and are making themselves out to be nothing but a farce.

“Boeing’s decision to build a 787 assembly line in South Carolina sent a message that Boeing workers would suffer financial harm for exercising their collective bargaining rights,” said Rich Michalski, the union’s vice president. “Federal law is clear: It’s illegal to threaten or penalize workers who engage in concerted activity.”

Do you hear that South Carolina?  According to that Socialist louse Rich Michalski, opening shop in our state is akin to threatening and penalizing workers in states that force people into unions they may not want to belong in.

The union claims that Boeing rejected new labor agreements in accepting almost $900 million in incentives and tax relief from South Carolina to build the Dreamliner in North Charleston.

And Boeing has every God damned right to do so.  Apparently Michalski thinks this is Communist China.  Neither Boeing nor any other company needs the permission of the NLRB to set up shop in any particular state.

“A worker’s right to strike is a fundamental right guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act,” Solomon said. “We also recognize the rights of employers to make business decisions based on their economic interests, but they must do so within the law.”

That may be, but that doesn’t mean a company doesn’t have the right to start doing business elsewhere when those striking workers start to become incessant pains in the ass and hold up the productivity and profitability of the company.

But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., delivered a scathing indictment of the NLRB move.

“This is one of the worst examples of unelected bureaucrats doing the bidding of special interest groups that I’ve ever seen,” Graham said. “In this case, the NLRB is doing the bidding of the unions at great cost to South Carolina and our nation’s economy.”

Show me exactly where in the Constitution the National Labor Relations Board has a right to even exist in the federal government in the first place.  These bureaucratic dictators, like the thousands of others in Washington D.C., should be defunded and eliminated completely.

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