How the NLRB is Hurting South Carolina’s Economic Development

No one's told us yet where the fedgov  gets its authority to interfere in the economies of the states. Hello? So. Carolinians are telling their governor and legislature to THROW THE BUMS OUT! Yankees Go Home!

September 26th 2011  

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An interesting excerpt out of the Charleston Post & Courier regarding the effects Obama’s union appointees at the National Labor Relations Board are having on the development (or lack thereof) in and around Charleston:

“The NLRB suit is affecting more than just Boeing,” [U.S. Rep. Jeff] Duncan said Monday. “You’ve got the support industries that are looking to locate here, buy real estate, build manufacturing plants, move equipment in. They’re taking a big risk that they can’t afford to take if NLRB is successful suing Boeing.

“These companies … would already be locating here, ramping up, getting ready to supply the harnesses and the windshields and the seat covers, everything that goes into the aircraft,” Duncan continued. “They’d be ready to start supplying that to Boeing. But it’s the uncertainty that’s being created with this lawsuit, which I think’s wrong.”

Mark Vitner, managing director and senior economist at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, said, “It just makes perfect sense that that would be the case.”

He said some suppliers might be concerned that they could find themselves in the NLRB’s cross-hairs next. “If they have a union shop somewhere else in the country, they could come after them,” he said. And if it came to mounting a legal defense, “Boeing suppliers probably aren’t as cash-rich as Boeing is.”

Of course, unions don’t always consider the consequences of their actions (which is probably why they are where they are today and companies leave to begin with).
Read the rest @ The Post and Courier, Charleston SC.