NLRB ruling on Boeing factory angers GOP

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


WASHINGTON -- A decision last month to recommend a labor case to a judge has mushroomed into a national political debate, pitting Boeing and Republicans against unions and the Obama administration.

On April 20, the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Lafe Solomon, issued a complaint against Boeing for starting an airplane production line in South Carolina, alleging the company did so in retaliation for strikes at a unionized plant in Washington state.

The decision sent the case filed by the local machinists' union to an administrative law judge and sent politicians into a tizzy.

Though the decision didn't directly halt construction at the new North Charleston, S.C., plant, it threw the project into limbo and brought quick denunciations from South Carolina officials.




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[Drale]

1. Its not even necessary to read the whole thing

Anything that angers the GOP must be a good thing right?

[Plucketeer]

2. I think that's a fair assumption

The bond between military contractors and conservative fornicators makes Super-Glue look wimpy. Whatever pissed them off has got to be good for the general populace!

[makhno]

3. Is that the same company that had pilloried EADS ...

... for its plans to have the final assembly line for the KC-30 in right-to-work Alabama?

[Citizen Worker]

4. Further proof that the law only applies in certain cases. And to think that the repubs have the

temerity to challenge democratic appointees to the courts because they are "political."

[Populist_Prole]

5. Screw Boeing. How can it be considered an export with so much work subbed out overseas?

Airbus makes a better plane these days anyway and use a sizable amount of US suppliers. Boeing has said for years it wants to be a "virtual" manufacturer.

[sarcasmo]

6. If you are a union member and vote republican you are a fool.