Unions to Boeing: We'll Tell You Where to Build Your Plants

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Fox News:

A 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.

“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.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/04/21/nlrb-complaint-boeing-political-critics/

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Bad enough to have union pressure to deal with, but now the US government is getting into to it too.