The political heavyweights are adding their two cents to the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against the Boeing Co.
President Barack Obama’s appointees on the labor board “have their boots on The Boeing Co.’s neck,” writes Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor, in this piece for Fox News.
The labor board has alleged that Boeing picked South Carolina as the site for its second 787 line in order to get back at its Machinists in Washington state for past strikes. The labor board’s general counsel has said Boeing’s move is illegal and wants the company to put a second line in Washington instead. A hearing on the complaint is set for June 14 in Seattle.
Palin isn’t the only Republican lashing out at Obama and the labor board. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich calls the complaint a “job killing effort” in this piece.
“It is clear that President Obama is packing the NLRB board with left wing ideologues as a payoff to his union boss allies, so that the fix is in with regard to this case and others like it,” Gingrich writes.
For the Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is standing up for the labor board and its complaint:
“Let’s be honest: Republicans are threatened by unions,” Reid said. “They’re threatened because when a large, organized group is so concerned with workers’ rights, the members of that group vote in large numbers. And because Republicans and the big businesses they defend so often try to take away workers’ rights, workers don’t often vote Republican.”
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