With all the talk and noise about rebuilding the economy, politics still override almost all issues, no matter.
In that regard, Republicans plan to introduce a bill in the House, prohibiting the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any company to close plants or relocate workers, even if a company flouts labor laws. By doing that they hope to permit Boeing to open a new production line for its 787 airplane in right-to-work South Carolina. And naturally, Democrats are vehemently opposed to the legislation.
While Republicans believe that the NLRB's stance is payback for their support of the president, and the Dem party, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said they're exaggerating what he called a routine step by the board to enforce a law that has been on the books for more than 70 years. The Act prohibits companies from retaliating against workers who exercise union rights by moving their jobs away.
And, that's the root of the problem because an awful lot's changed regarding labor over the past seventy years and that needs to be reviewed. However, the Dem's don't even want to consider the issues.
Nonetheless, business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Federation of Independent Business launched radio ads this week condemning the board for the Boeing case and other pro-union actions they say interfere with the economic recovery but so far, that hasn't mattered.
So, in the end the president will keep up his blabber about the economy and how our problems shouldn't be further hampered by politics at all. But in the meantime, he'll keep on pursuing his socialization of the nation until no one has a job at all.
That's it for today folks.
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