NLRB seeks to interfere with interstate commerce with Boeing ruling
Image via WikipediaA complaint against Boeing (BA) filed by the National Labor Relations Board came under sharp attack Thursday by critics who charged that the aerospace giant is being unfairly targeted by pro-union elements of the Obama Administration.This is typical of the Obama administration suck up to labor. It would not surprise me that this was a subject of conversation in one of Trumka's numerous visits to the White House. Obama recently did a recess appointment to put a labor apparatchik on the NLRB.
“It’s just another union handout by the Obama Administration, and in this case at the expense of a right-to-work state,” said F. Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative research center.
The NLRB on Wednesday said Boeing had violated federal labor law when it decided to open a second assembly line for its 787 Dreamliner airplanes in a non-union plant in South Carolina rather than in a union factory near its headquarters outside Seattle.
The complaint alleges that Boeing’s decision was based on the company’s desire to retaliate against the union that represents Boeing workers in Washington, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. According to the complaint, that’s a violation of federal labor law.
Boeing said it will go forward with its South Carolina plans while it fights the NLRB complaint.
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In an earlier statement, Boeing’s general counsel, J. Michael Luttig, said: “This claim is legally frivolous and represents a radical departure from both NLRB and Supreme Court precedent. 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.”
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The Washington Examiner writes:
The NLRB is hanging its case on a senior Boeing official's statement to the Seattle Times that "The overriding factor [in transferring the line] ... was that we cannot afford to have a work stoppage, you know, every three years." The NLRB absurdly claims this is "unlawful employer speech" that infringes on "a worker's fundamental" right to strike. But the Supreme Court has long held that firms may consider the economic effect of strikes when making business decisions. Also, Boeing's existing collective bargaining agreement with the IAM allows Boeing to build facilities at other locations. An administrative law judge will hear Boeing's objection to the NLRB's complaint June 14, so there still is hope sanity will prevail. But a decision in favor of the IAM would be a disaster not just for Boeing, but for American workers everywhere. A ruling in favor of Obama's NLRB would make it presumptively illegal for any unionized firm to invest in a right-to-work state.We need to look at the funding of the NLRB since they are clearly wasting taxpayer money on this type of case. They are acting more like the tool of labor thugs.
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