labor has no stake in this dispute. Uh, I thought NLRB was supposed to act on behalf of labor, otherwise they should remove the “L” from NLRB. It’s going to be so much fun to watch NLRB lose this one, and I can’t wait to hear the excuses (Bush’s fault?)

This is just another example of the administration redesigning the freedoms we have granted in the Constitution. This President has appointed people to the NLRB who are pro-union and whose desire is not only to force all workers to be under the jurisdiction of a union but for businesses like Boeing to bow to the desires of the union, thus making the unions co-owners without the risk or investment. everything that is going on is predictable.

This is purely an exercise in the government choosing winners. THis isn’t refereeing, this is rigging the game. You no longer have rights in America unless you *know* somebody in DC.

Nothing is surprising from this administration any more. They are simply wrong on every single thing they do. One more example.

Funny thing is this – if Boeing loses, my money says they open their replacement dreamliner plant not in the Northwest, but in a foreign country, say Argentina or Canada or some such. Sadly, the U.S. would lose all those good jobs, but happily it would reflect on Obama and his aministration and their anti-business crusade.

or somethin ? It’s the New Order gang, the thugs are taking over, they think their time has come. All the guys who used to get beat up in the schoolyard are lawyers with aimless grudges to settle. All the malcontents who never knew what was eating away inside of them have found a target, it’s their country & all those nasty, ignorant, little people who live in it, who need a strong hand, very strong, to “guide” them. A Progressive hand.
I assume their is recourse to the federal courts.

then why is the NLRB involved at all?

I guess Obama has so much of a comfort zone in the Electoral College that giving up South Carolina, and probably its surrounding states is no sweat to him. As for the NLRB, its actions are disgraceful and are but another example of the most anti business anti consumer anti worker administration in post war America.

After all, why should actual workers have standing before the National Labor Relations Board? Allowing the workers to intervene would imply that workers, not unions have rights that the NLRB is bound to respect. And given that the NLRB is the classic example of a “captured agency” which operates for the benefit of those it is supposed to oversee rather than providing actual oversight, we ought not even be surprised.

I’ve said it previously, I’m an employee of Boeing and a (forced) union member, and today, I was almost inspired to do violence. But then, that would make me sink to their level, wouldn’t it? Movement on my career is literally on hold until this mess gets straightened out. I’ve had my sights set on moving to Charleston and getting out of this union hell hole ever since the plant was announced, and this just makes me boiling.

But for a handful of my closest associates, I’m surrounded by goons, and all they seem to care about is how the NLRB is going to “[F-word] Boeing for their stupid [S-word].” I often wonder if they realize that it’s BOEING that signs their paycheck. They wear their union t-shirts and union colors with pride and revel in the fact that they take a constant stance of opposition to the company which employs them every chance they get. It’s… bizzaro world for me sometimes.

to add on the list of government agencies to delete. Somehow this administration thinks unions are relevant.

“Progressive” government doesn’t want to deal with, nor does it care about individuals. It wants to deal with “interest groups’ which may well put their own power and influence above the rights of the individuals they are supposed to represent…

Until the Carter presidency, individual federal employees had legally enforcable individual contract rights. The Carter Administration “negotiated” a new deal (with the unions, of course) in which the employees individual rights were replaced by the “right” to “union representation”. Anyone see a pattern here?