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When President Obama took office in 2009, he told Americans that he “will be held accountable.” He also told us that, within his first term, he would turn around a struggling American economy and put the country back on the right track.
In fighting the War on Terror on Jihad, President Barack Obama should be grateful to a vital American company like Boeing for its contributions to that fight. Instead—and not surprisingly—the Commander-in-Chief put politics ahead of American jobs in South Carolina by allowing his National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), along with labor unions to lodge a complaint, and then a lawsuit, against Boeing, claiming that the company intended to punish unions by moving its facility to South Carolina.
When Boeing announced it would build a major facility in Charleston, South Carolina, the labor unions claimed that the reason for the new (and that's the key to this disput) facility was retaliation against union labor at Boeing's existing operations in Seattle and Washington State. The union has had a history of calling strikes against Boeing. But in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, unions are weak. However the greasy fingerprints of politics is all over this issue and is a major element in the ongoing battle, as demonstrated by this November 29 CNSNEWS story outlining that the NLRB wants to rule on issues prior to the expiration of an Obama Administration recess appointment to the NLRB. Without Obama’s appointee, most of the Administration's agenda would likely be dead on arrival.
It’s difficult to understand how in today’s dismal economy, our president isn’t bright enough to see how this aerospace titan’s plans for a $750 million factory and its hiring of nearly 100 “lazy American workers” to build the world’s most fuel-efficientcommercial jetliner might be a proverbial “feather in his hat.” But evidently he’s more interested in special interest donations to his 2012 campaign.
Conversely, the president sure loves to take his props when other Boeing product’s like its unmanned military aircraft which for the most part makes Obama look as though he’s engaged in, and winning the “War on Terror,” or is he?
Update on Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM by
Basil Ryan
Union Drops Charges Against Boeing
During contract negotiations with Boeing, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) agreed to drop their charges against the company for building a new plant in South Carolina. This is a victory for conservatives. The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) attempt to dictate where businesses invest has failed. Continue reading…
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