-By Warner Todd Huston
Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) wants some answers as to why Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) thinks it has the power to tell American businesses where they are allowed to build their newest manufacturing facilities.
On June 6 Senator DeMint’s office filed a freedom of information request demanding documents connected to the NLRBs decisions to try to force Boeing not to open a new manufacturing plant it planned to open in South Carolina.
DeMint is concerned about the outside influence of unions in this case. On his website he notes that in the same month that the NLRB began attacking Boeing the International Association of Machinists was bragging in its newsletters about the political influence it had bought with its campaign contributions.
In the same month that the NLRB decision on the Boeing case was made public, the IAM bragged to its members in their April newsletter that political contributions made by the union’s political action committee (PAC) “gains your Union access to officials, which is critical to get our issues addressed and ensure our input is heard.”
The Senator wants to know if these donations by unions created a “pay to play” scenario with the NLRBs attempt to stall Boeing’s new start up in South Carolina, a state well known as a right to work state where unions have far less influence than Washington state where Boeing has its current plant.
Whether there was provable pay to play or not, the fact is that this move by Obama’s regulatory arm is an unheard of, outrageous attempt to oppress the freedom of an American business to operate in any American state in which it wants to operate. Further, it is plain that the sole reason Obama’s regulatory agency is doing this is to benefit big Labor — one of Obama’s biggest donors.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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Boeing is a Corporate Welfare Queen, it is an American Business wholly supported via taxpayer dollars. And as such it’s business practices are subject to the American government’s discretion, rules and by-laws, (i.e they don’t get to violate the constitutional right of the workers to peaceably assemble (unionize) and ask for a redress of their grievances).
If Boeing doesn’t want Government interference then they need to subject themselves to the Free Market and stop sucking on the government tit, euphemistically called Defense Contracts.
What a moronic comment. By your “logic” any agency or corporation that works for the government have no rights whatever. You are a Stalinist…. no, I take that back. You are a Fascist in your desire to have government completely control business.
Your evil spiteful comment shall not cause me to name call you. But, don’t be mad that Boeing gets Hundreds of Billions of dollars in government contracts and can’t compete on the open market.
That’s all right. Your brainless, un-American comments simply mark you and your kind as what is wrong with this country, is all.
(By the way, this idiot tried to comment again and said I should not have used “your” above. Moron. Your IS the proper word. You are banned for being stupid.)