Perhaps Secretary [Hilda] Solis, in her zeal to bolster U.S. manufacturing, could use her influence in high places to urge an NLRB retreat on this absurd action against Boeing — and on similarly misguided administration pandering to organized labor.
After all, as she writes in her column: “In the Charleston area alone, more than 900 manufacturing jobs have been added since July 2010 — an increase of 4.3 percent.”
In other words, President Obama’s labor secretary is bragging, in part, about jobs added in the Charleston area by Boeing, even as President Obama’s NLRB acting general counsel takes Boeing to court for adding those jobs.
And that, by any logical analysis, doesn’t add up.
The NLRB action makes so little sense, unless viewed as a way to give a huge new momentum to union groups. Soon after the President was elected, didn’t the NLRB also promulgate a rule that all elections to either unionize or to decertify (oust) a union in a business have to be hand and/or voice vote – no secret ballotting? I’m sure the rule was promulgated; I just don’t know if it went into effect. I suppose it gets rid of the problem of hanging chads….