To: Farmboy who wrote (124320 ) 2/17/2012 7:36:25 PM From: FJB 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to Obama Touts Boeing Plant He Tried to Close Obama touts S.C. Boeing plant that NLRB sued Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writereven though his National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tried to close the South Carolina plant at the behest of the Washington union workers. told the assembled workers this afternoon at the Everett, Wash., Boeing plant. "And the impact of your success, as I said, goes beyond the walls of this plant. Every Dreamliner that rolls off the assembly line here in Everett supports thousands of jobs in different industries all across the country. Parts of the fuselage are manufactured in South Carolina and Kansas," Obama also noted before mentioning factories in other states.NLRB tried to close that South Carolina plant , though, after union workers in Washington argued that Boeing had built the new factory in South Carolina -- which is a right to work state -- in retaliation against the Machinist Union strikes that had slowed production in Washington state. The NLRB dropped the complaint in December after Boeing signed a new contract with the machinists argued that the NLRB "helped unions shake down Boeing" by pushing the complaint, which would have cost over 1,000 non-union jobs in South Carolina, until the union received the new contract.
