Boeing And The National Labor Relations Board
After doing some thinking on this, I believe it remains clear that a company can move wherever it wants for whatever reason it wants, even if it is in retaliation against union strikes. There's no getting around that, and that's why there is pretty much a zero percent chance that Boeing won't be setting up shop in Charleston. In fact, if the Obama administration was serious about trying to stop the plant from being built, it would have lodged this complaint in January of 2009, not two years into construction and after a couple thousand workers have been employed. Having said that, the outrage expressed by South Carolina leaders last week about this rang hollow, just as hollow as the term "right-to-work" state. I'll be touching more on that in tomorrow's column.
