Boeing to Obama Admn - GO F YOURSELF We are opening in S.C.!

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Despite lawsuit, Boeing opens SC plant
By Keith Laing - 06/10/11 11:48 AM ET

 
Airplane manufacturing company Boeing celebrated the opening of its new 787 plant in South Carolina Friday, despite an ongoing lawsuit the National Labor Relations Board about the company's decision not to locate the facility in Washington state.

The NLRB has sued Boeing, alleging the company decided to build the facility in South Carolina in retaliation for labor strikes by workers at its Puget Sound plant near Seattle. Republicans have made the lawsuit a political issue by saying it shows President Obama's administration is anti-business and beholden to unions.

If the lawsuit is ultimately successful, Boeing could be forced to build the planes it intends to build in Charleston, S.C., in Seattle.

The company is contesting the NLRB lawsuit.

But Friday was not about that, Gayla Keller of Boeing said. 

"While there’s been a lot in the news recently about government attempts to force Boeing to place the second final assembly line in Puget Sound and close the South Carolina final assembly and delivery facility, we are confident that Boeing will prevail against the National Labor Relations Board complaint," Keller said in an email to reporters. "But today for us is not about that dispute, but instead we want to celebrate the opening of the South Carolina final assembly facility, as well as the continued outstanding work by our employees in the Puget Sound as they build the world’s best commercial aircraft.

Keller called the plant opening "an important day for American manufacturing" because the 787 was "America's next great export." 

The plant where the planes will be built has emerged as an issue in the Republican presidential campaign as hopefuls eager to curry favor in South Carolina, a crucial early primary state, have criticized it in national forums.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney compared it, for intrusiveness, to the federal healthcare law that is anathema to conservative activists, while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty called it "preposterous" in a debate in South Carolina and penned an op-ed about it in The National Review. 
 
Additionally, before his campaign lost its senior staff, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on "Meet the Press" the lawsuit would punish "every right-to-work state."

The White House has said Obama will not comment on the lawsuit because the NLRB is an "independent agency," but other Democrats have begun swinging to the panel's defense.

Source:

http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/aviation/165787-despite-lawsuit-boeing-opens-south-carolina-787-plant



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Good for them.    This is another black bag job by Obama to collapse the nation and send jobs overseas.     

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NLRB lawyer: "We screwed up the U.S. economy"
by Conn Carroll Senior Editorial Writer


http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/nlrb-lawyer-we-screwed-us-economy



New documents obtained by Judicial Watch show acting National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Lafe Solomon joking that the NLRB's suit against Boeing would kill jobs in South Carolina. Commenting on a Planet Labor article whose headline suggests Boeing might not be able to open its new plant in South Carolina because of "antiunion behavior," Solomon writes:

The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva and I get a job with airbus. We screwed up the us economy and now we can tackle europe.

Solomon goes on to complain that Obama NLRB nominee Craig Becker may be getting the credit for the Boeing suit: "I didn't read all of the meltwater articles but some of the headlines tie boeing to craig. Unbelievable."

Solomon's colleague, outgoing NLRB Chairwoman Wlima Liebman, replies by soothing Soloman's bruised ego. "None of the articles tie craig to boeing. Just mention his recess appointment. No one is raining on your parade," Liebman wrote in reply.

Becker, who was once counsel to both the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), had his nomination to the NLRB blocked by the Senate. News of his recess appointment to the NLRB coincided with Solomon's suit against Boeing.

In another email, NLRB attorney sent an article from The Economist to NLRB attorney Debra Willen and commented: "Exactly; it just shows you how incredibly reactionary the US is, that the conservative Economist thinks we’re Neanderthal."

Willen seems to have been a magnet for emails belittling South Carolina. When a former NLRB employee emailed Willen a note mocking Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., as "Sen. Dement," Willen replied: "You retired with your integrity, which makes you far wealthier than Sen. Dement will ever be."

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says the tenor of the emails show the NLRB's case against Boeing isn't supported by the law. “These documents provide further evidence that the Obama administration’s attack on Boeing is irresponsible and politically motivated,” Fitton said. “NLRB attorneys come off as juvenile politicos rather than professionals interested in arbitrating a labor dispute. The utter contempt for congressional oversight shows that the NRLB thinks it is above the law. We hope these documents help educate the public about the ongoing abuse of power by this agency.”

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LOL, how anyone can think that "The Economist" is "reactionary" and "conservative" is beyond me. It just goes to show that the stupider you are, the better you fare in government.

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Labor board broke federal law on Boeing suit
by Conn Carroll Senior Editorial Writer




Then-National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma B. Liebman and Peter Carey Schaumber, a longtime board member and former chairman, meet in a conference room at NLRB headquarters in Washington, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)



What if there were emails showing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor coordinating with Attorney General Eric Holder and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on how the Obama administration should fight judicial challenges to Obamacare?

At a bare minimum, Justice Sotomayor would have to recuse herself from the case, she might be impeached, and Holder would face serious ethics questions as well. But such emails do not exist ... concerning Obamacare. When it comes to the National Labor Relations Board suit against Boeing, that is a different story.

Cause of Action, a conservative government accountability nonprofit, has obtained emails through a Freedom of Information Act request showing then-NLRB Chairwoman Wilma Liebman, NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon and NLRB Public Affairs Director Nancy Cleeland coordinating the board's response to its own decision to sue Boeing for opening a factory in the right to work state of South Carolina.

But, since the NLRB is an independent agency, shouldn't they be allowed to coordinate about ongoing litigation? Yes and no. The NLRB is supposed to be an independent agency, capable of creating rules, enforcing them and adjudicating them.

But because the NLRB has within itself all of the governing powers our Founding Fathers believed should be separated (legislative, executive and judicial), its creators also wrote rules making it illegal for board employees who perform different functions from communicating with each other under certain circumstances.

Specifically, 29 C.F.R. 102.126 and 29 C.F.R. 102.127 forbid a member of the board from requesting or "knowingly caus[ing] to be made" any ex parte communications with any interested person outside the agency relevant to the proceeding.

That same regulation also forbids any "interested person outside this agency" from making any ex parte communications to board members.

Most importantly, 29 C.F.R 102.127 specifically defines the phrase "person outside this agency" to include "the general counsel or his representative when prosecuting an unfair labor practice proceeding before the board pursuant to section 10(b) of the act."

The regulations define an ex parte communication as "an oral written communication not on the public record with respect to which reasonable prior notice to all parties is not given."

The emails Cause of Action obtained would seem to be covered by these laws.

Solomon is the general counsel. He is pursuing an unfair labor practice proceeding against Boeing before the board pursuant to 10(b) of the National Labor Relations Act.

Liebman was the chairwoman of the NLRB. Any decision made by the administrative law judge hearing the Boeing case Soloman is arguing could be appealed to Liebman's board, much as lower court decisions are appealed to the Supreme Court. So all communications between Solomon and Liebman about the Boeing suit would be illegal under the NLRA.

Cause of Action has obtained at least four emails sent to both Solomon and Liebman explicitly about the Boeing litigation. There is also a fifth email about the Boeing litigation, sent from Liebman herself, to Cleeland and Solomon. All of these communications appear to violate NLRB's own rules.

Cause of Action has asked NLRB's inspector general to investigate the apparently illegal coordination by Liebman, Cleeland and Solomon on the Boeing suit. But Congress must do more.

It is bad enough that Congress has eviscerated the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine by ceding away its governing powers to administrative agencies like the NLRB. Congress should not now allow those agencies to ignore what few protections have been left in place.

Conn Carroll is a senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner. He can be reached at
ccarroll@washingtonexaminer.com.

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I live in Charleston presently and am familiar with this. Boeing has a massive pool of former USAF aircraft maintainers that have 10-20 years of experience working on airplanes here in Charleston, as we have an AFB here. So there are plenty of willing individuals to step up and work. Also, the people in this area are grateful to have a good paying job with a good company that takes care of its people. So you won't here a bunch of liberal sissy b#tching down here. I just moved from the Bay area in Cali, which is a lot politically like the Washington area. I can completely understand why Boeing left those loonies out there. Two different coasts=two different mind sets.