Labor Board Case Against Boeing Points to Fights to Come
April 22, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
For businesses, it was the type of action they have
feared from a National Labor Relations Board dominated
by Democrats. For labor unions, it was the type of
action they have hoped for. And for both, it may be a
sign of things to come.
These fears and hopes were stirred this week when the
labor board’s top lawyer filed a case against Boeing,
seeking to force it to move airplane production from a
nonunion plant in South Carolina to a unionized one in
Washington State. Boeing executives had publicly said
they were making the move to avoid the kind of strikes
the airplane maker had repeatedly faced in Washington;
Lafe Solomon, the labor board’s acting general counsel,
said the company’s motive constituted illegal
retaliation against workers for exercising their right
to strike.
The agency’s unusually bold action angered business
groups and some politicians, who said it was an
unwarranted attempt by the government to interfere with
a fundamental corporate decision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/business/23labor.html
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