YouTube:  Sen. Alexander - Obama, Unions, NLRB Hurt Job Growth

Since 1989, there have been four strikes at Boeing’s Washington facility. The last strike lasted eight weeks and cost the firm $2 billion.  Last March, the National Labor Relations Board (NLR filed a complaint against Boeing for its decision to set up a non-unionized production line in South Carolina.

The NRLB complaint alleges that Boeing is locating a second production line in that state to retaliate against striking union workers in Washington State.  The facts don't back the complaint.

In 2009, Boeing invested $1 billion in a new factory in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, and hired 1,000 local workers. Boeing didn't then lay off 1,000 workers in Washington State.  They actually increased its Washington workforce by 2,000.

It is completely unreasonable for unionized workers to have a veto on where a company decides to allocate shareholder capital. Yet that will be the ultimate result if the union wins this case.

This case is more about establishing a union beachhead into so-called right-to-work states.  Right-to-work states have laws that secure “the right of employees to decide for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union.”

Unions hate right-to-work laws because they cannot force workers to fund their bloated coffers. They are also likely concerned that so many companies are relocating to more business-friendly, right-to-work states. Union leaders are so invested in their archaic system of doing business that they are willing to destroy 1,000 jobs to make their point.

The Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board and unions are standing in the way of job creation and economic recovery, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said Saturday.

YouTube Senator Alexander:

"Our goal should be to make it easier and cheaper to create private-sector jobs in this country," Alexander said in the GOP's weekly address. "Giving workers the right to join or not to join a union helps to create a competitive environment in which more manufacturers like Nissan and Boeing can make here what they sell here."

"The National Labor Relations Board moved to stop America's largest exporter, the Boeing Company, from building airplanes at a non-union plant in South Carolina, suggesting that a unionized American company can’t expand its operations into one of the 22 states with right-to-work laws, which protect a worker's right to join or not to join a union," Alexander said.

Barack Obama, the NLRB, and unions aren't concerned about Americans having jobs.  They are concerned about the power and money the unions may lose. 

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