Boeing v. NLRB: You Won’t Believe the Diabolical Depths of the Obama Administration, OK Maybe You Will

I truly hope you appreciate this dear readers…I passed up luxury box seats at tonight’s Giants v. Rams game to go deep inside the vast right wing conspiracy in order to bring you back dispatches from the front lines of the great battle of our time. The biggest news of the night relates to the NLRB vs. Boeing issue. As you may know, Boeing built a $1 billion manufacturing facility in South Carolina to build 787 Dreamliners and the NLRB, at the behest of the Washington (state) machinists’ union, has attempted to prohibit Boeing from building planes in South Carolina. The actual remedy that the NLRB’s legal action seeks is to demand that Boeing scrap its plans in South Carolina and build a new facility in Washington state. The NLRB’s legal claim is dubious, but an ultimate remedy is years of legal wrangling off for Boeing if they fight this all the way through the legal system. Thus there is enormous business pressure on Boeing to settle.

For most of us, this much alone was enough to make the blood boil, but here is where the issue will send you through the roof. Guess what? The NLRB has a settlement in mind and, apparently, this type of settlement has already made it up to the Boardroom at Boeing. The NLRB will let it all drop, and let Boeing build planes at its $1 billion facility in South Carolina, if they submit to “card check” unionization at the Charleston facility. If they get this, the NLRB will then have the precedent of of imposing card check unionization procedures as a remedy on any employer that they deem to be a “labor law violator”. Look the wrong way at your union employees, boom, card check for you. Give too much money to Republicans, boom, card check for you.

Democrats couldn’t get card check through their House and Senate majorities an onto Obama’s desk, but they’ve figured out strategy to try and get the ability to impose it selectively. This NLRB gambit against Boeing is an attempt to impose through bullying and intimidation what they were unable to pass via legislation.

There are only three ways out of this: 1) Boeing’s Board of Directors hangs tough, refuses to settle, and fights this in the courts as far as it will go; 2) Obama loses in 2012 and a President Romney or President Perry undoes the current NLRB makeup, and; 3) an individual lawsuit brought by the National Right to Work Foundation Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of Boeing’s South Carolina’s workers succeeds. This is a massive battle over the basic level of freedoms relating economic activity, the underpinning of our prosperous economy for decades. The type of world that would prevail if the Obama administration wins this one, looks basically like France, where businesses can’t do anything without union say-so and 10% unemployment is the natural order of things as a result.

You can contact Boeing’s Board of Directors here. You can give to or learn about the NRTW’s foundation’s lawsuit here. And of course you can vote against Obama, even if freakin’ Donald Duck is the Republican nominee.

Note: cross-posted at SayAnything.