Americans pride themselves on the premise that they are a free people able to move from town to town, and state to state without the permission from federal bureaucrats. That premise of freedom is being challenged by the Obama Administration. Boeing has decided to open a factory in South Carolina, which is a right to work state. The unions are not happy with this decision and have decided to pull some favors from Washington D.C. in order stop them; as reported by the Washington Examiner:
Can federal bureaucrats tell a private company where to build a factory?
Members of President Obama's National Labor Relations Board think they can. In a decision that even the New York Times is describing as "highly unusual for the federal government," Lafe Solomon, who was appointed to the board by Obama, filed a complaint on behalf of the NLRB on Wednesday seeking to force the Boeing Co. to build an assembly line in Washington state instead of South Carolina.
Boeing has had problems with the labor unions for years. South Carolina is a business friendly state and its citizens are an independent people that have a history of rejecting collectivism. Obama’s core constituents are the labor unions. And this president has had enough of his voting bloc being diminished:
That's when Boeing chose South Carolina, a right-to-work state where, unlike Washington, workers are not forced to join unions. As a result of this policy, only 6.2 percent of South Carolinians belong to unions. Construction of Boeing's new Charleston factory is nearly complete, and the company has already hired more than 1,000 new employees, drawn mostly from within the immediate region. And back in Washington, Boeing has actually increased employment at its Puget Sound plant by 2,000 workers. But that isn't good enough for the IAM or the Obama White House. After suffering major defeats in Wisconsin and Ohio, the labor movement is looking for a scalp. Obama's NLRB is trying to turn Boeing into one.
If Obama and the labor unions win this fight, our liberties are truly at stake; when people and businesses lose the ability of movement, than we have truly descended into tyranny.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011/04/federal-labor-board-seeks-ground-boeing#ixzz1KIqjbmrH
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