LA Times: Mitt Romney says labor board is a job-killer, and that Obama shares blame

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-obama-boeing-nlrb-20110628,0,3102129.story

By Michael Muskal

June 28, 2011, 11:01 a.m.
FormerMassachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney didn’t even wait for President Obama to arrive in Iowa on Tuesday before he launched his latest attack on the president’s job policies.

In an interview with the Associated Press that the Romney campaign sent out to reporters, Romney attacked Obama for a National Labor Relations Board move against Boeing, which has built a new plant in South Carolina. If the plant is shuttered, it might threaten jobs at the Alcoa plant in Bettendorf, Iowa, which Obama is scheduled to visit Tuesday, according to Romney.


Mitt Romney speaks with a group of business leaders in Salem, N.H. Monday. (Jim Cole/AP)

“This Boeing decision in South Carolina sent shock waves across the nation and, if allowed to stand, will result in American job losses and I think you can be sure there will be some losses in Iowa as well as other states,” Romney said.

The White House played no role in the NLRB action, spokeswoman Amy Brundage said.

“The manufacturing sector has led the economic recovery under the president’s leadership, with over 230,000 jobs added since the beginning of 2010. Alcoa particularly has been a leader in manufacturing innovation and the president will highlight the success of this American company and its workers at the Bettendorf plant," she said in an emailed statement.

The NLRB handles union issues, including claims of unfair practices by employers against labor unions. In a complaint, the board charged that Boeing built a $750-million airplane factory in nonunion South Carolina in retaliation against the machinists' union for strikes at the Washington state facilities. The company denies the complaint, which is in the hearing process and could end up in the courts.

FULL story at link.

[TygrBright]

1. Yer ALMOST right, Mittens. But what the NLRB is, is a SHITTY JOB killer.

Ever notice that? Funny, really....

GOPpies are all over anything that might reduce the number and availability of virtual slave-labor jobs. "Get rid of it! We need those jobs!"

Good jobs though? Anything that kills THOSE is welcome. Yay NAFTA! Yay "free trade"!

They're funny like that.

Yep, it's a shitty-job killer, alright, Mittens. Choke on it you tool.

disgustedly,
Bright