The NLRB’s baseless lawsuit against Boeing is an assault on the freedom of movement of every American & undermines the competitive advantage of all Right-to-Work States, including Virginia. The NLRB has no justifiable reason to impede a company from hiring employees & operating in a Right-to-Work State. The Senate should pass this legislation quickly to prevent this from happening in the future & protect Virginia’s Right-to-Work law.
Senate Targets NLRB in spending bill
Politico
By David Rogers
September 20, 2011
Building on last week’s House vote, Republicans are now targeting the National Labor Relations Board budget in the Senate, hoping to win over two Democrats and attach a rider barring the agency from pursuing any order threatening Boeing’s new non-union 787 production line in South Carolina.
Given the stakes and narrow 16-14 Democratic majority in the Senate Appropriations Committee, labor is clearly anxious and mounted a last push Tuesday evening to secure its support before the scheduled committee meeting Wednesday.
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), a member of the panel, told POLITICO that he is now “leaning toward” the GOP amendment but had yet to make a firm commitment. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), a second member and often a swing vote for Republicans, insisted he had no firm opinion on the issue. “It is a case of new impressions,” Nelson said.
As drafted by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the amendment is clearly aimed at the Boeing case but written in such a generic fashion that it would impact the NLRB’s powers in other instances when employers are shown to have moved work from one facility to another to retaliate again workers for lawful union activities.
Boeing says now that it built the new facility in South Carolina for unrelated cost reasons, but the Chicago-based company is haunted by past public comments by its executives expressing concern over strikes and walkouts by unionized machinists working in the Seattle area. The record is such that the NLRB’s counsel found that Boeing’s decision to locate in South Carolina –a right-to-work state—constituted illegal retaliation against its union workers, and with 1,100 jobs at stake, the issue has become a cause célèbre, especially in the Southeast, against the labor board.
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