Boeing Crashes at the NLRB
“Unprecedented!” “Frivolous!” are just two of the milder characterizations that have been hurled at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the wake of its unfair labor practice complaint against Boeing for moving work on the 787 Dreamliner to a new plant in South Carolina. What is most surprising about those characterizations is they came from, among others, the labor law professoriate that is usually a knee-jerk supporter of the Labor Board in any union-supporting effort. Long-time union stalwarts have noted that the NLRB’s conduct is the boldest act of its recent and expanding pro-labor activist agenda and have questioned its wisdom, if not its intent. But first, some background.
