Posted on 09/06/2011 6:25:02 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
You have to wonder about a federal agency that sticks it to an American manufacturer creating thousands of good-paying jobs inside the nation's borders instead of overseas.
Fortunately, we hope, you won't have to wonder about it for long. We suspect the end is near for the brief reign of an overbearing pro-union majority on the National Labor Relations Board. That should help to lift an economy in dire need of job creation. It also should lift Chicago's Boeing Corp., the manufacturer targeted in an outrageous NLRB complaint earlier this year.
With little fanfare, board Chair Wilma Liebman left the agency after her term expired Aug. 27. President Barack Obama's recess appointment of another board member, labor lawyer Craig Becker, runs out Dec. 31. Combined with a long-standing vacancy, those departures would leave just two of the board's five seats occupied. So in the absence of any new appointments — which Republicans have vowed to block — the board will fall short of a quorum.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Since the NLRB has already started proceedings against Boeing before an administrative law judge, isn’t it likely that those proceedings will continue even if the board itself lacks a quorum for further board action? The only thing that I can see the lack of a quorum doing at this point is preventing (or at least delaying) any appeal by the NLRB if it loses before that administrative law judge.
The NLRB's worst decision, however, is its unprovoked hit-job on Boeing. (...) Talk about a chilling effect on job creation. What company would invest a fortune in a new facility if the government can change the rules and idle it? That's how banana republics operate, not the United States of America.
NICE
These pernicious agencies need to be marked for elimination.
The case is slated for trial before an administrative law judge this month. As it stands today, the plant is open and gearing up to produce its first Dreamliner. Boeing has hired 1,000 workers for it in the past year, and also operates 787-related facilities around the plant with thousands of additional employees. If Solomon gets his way, forcing production to Washington, Boeing will be stuck with a $750 million custom-built plant and a trained workforce that can't be used.The lack of a quorum temporarily deactivates the board. While that won't prevent the case against Boeing from moving forward, it will stifle the anti-jobs agenda of the board from further damaging the economy.
Along with the Taft Hartley Act. Also may have to nullify Roosevelt’s 1934 Executive Order that created the NLRB.
That one would be first on my list, followed by the Dept. of Ed. What a waste of money!
I believe at one point the Supreme Court ruled the NLRB was unconstitutional but later reversed that ruling. And people say the SC isn’t political.
The BATFE needs to be put out of its misery, with prejudice.
THE WAR IS NOT OVER.
There will be more recess appointments.
Obama is governing BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. The Constitution is just a bystander, since Administrative Fiat has replaced legislation, the judiciary (which is largely comprised of economic & historical ignoramuses, with certain few notable exceptions), and replaced Rule of Law with myriad arbitrary Rules by Man.
This is encouraging - that even a liberal rag like the Trib will get religion when one of their own babies (Boeing is now a Chicago HQ company) gets trampled by liberal idiocy.
If they could only wake up and realize that this happens to companies headquartered outside of Chicago as well — and is what is killing our economy and our national entrepreneurial spirit.
Agreed. That’s why it is SO VERY important to defeat Obama.
Like, who needs the NLRB? “Stroke of the pen; law of the land. Kinda’ cool!”
The problem is that Boeing is run my Affirmative Action pansies. They are more concerned with “ethics”, that they violate every day, than they are about business. They grew recently through good management but have in the past few years rested on their profits.
At Boeing, no longer are interviews about what the manager feels is necessary for the job, rather, the interview questions are canned questions given to the manager by HR. This also means unqualified candidate are hired or promoted without the real and necessary qualifications. If a candidate scores the highest on the canned HR questions the candidate is selected.
At Boeing, managers are no longer free to hire and fire; meaning, Boeing managers no longer fit the federal definition of a manager, that being the authority to hire and fire, and are now simply supervisors. This also means discipline is no longer allowed. Employees can act out, misbehave, refuse to do their jobs, do their jobs badly, and a whole host of other negative consequences, all without much negative consequences to the employee. Bad employees are retained and good ones are ignored.
At Boeing, they flew in the entire senior executive staff from around the world at a cost of millions. Why? To have a black woman in charge of Affirmative Action lecture them on “ethics”; film it, and then show that video to all the employees as part of a worldwide training program on “ethics”. Yeah, real ethical, there.
At Boeing, they have simply allowed themselves to be held hostage by Politically Correct liberalism, thinking that somehow that will increase sales and profits.
And how many large corporations are following the same I PC path? Same with government agencies. Do other global companies do the same thing?
Most do. I’ve consulted to many companies and all but a handful have steered in that PC direction. Those that didn’t are still in business and doing well. Those that have, well, many are no longer around.
Just had John Challenger on MSNBC saying Boeing is looking for “diverse new employees”. LOL You sure called it!
Their latest slogan is “Diversity is Our Strength”. My neighbor is a Boeing manager. He just hired three people and the HR employee actually asked him if they “are more white people or did we finally get a non-white?” He said the Obama administration has been quietly pushing for more non-whites in all companies that do federal government business.
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