Judicial Watch group provides some internal NLRB documents

Published 11:53 am Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The group Judicial Watch said internal emails it received from the National Labor Relations Board under the Freedom of Information Act show the agency is pro union.

The group, which describes itself as constitutionally conservative and nonpartisan, filed its request after the NLRB filed a lawsuit against the Boeing Co. which alleged that Boeing’s 787 assembly plant in South Carolina was an attack on the Machinists union.

South Carolina is a right to work state. The Machinists union recently unveiled some Boeing documents which suggested officials chose South Carolina for the plant mostly because of its stand against unions

Judicial Watch said the documents it received included internal correspondence between NLRB lawyers.

It cited one issued May 5 by NLRB lawyer Miriam Szapiro “warning an unknown recipient (name blacked out) about reading a Wall Street Journal article supporting Boeing and criticizing compulsory unionism: ‘don’t look at yesterday’s WSJ; you’ll puke.’ ”

The group’s president, Tom Fitton, said the NLRB is supposed to be a neutral arbiter of labor disputes, “not a cheerleader for unions.”