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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) should take a break from pressuring the Boeing Company to settle that agency’s “loony left” complaint (“The Economist,” May 19, 2011), which seeks to prevent Boeing from producing additional 787 aircraft in its non-union plant in South Carolina.  A settlement would protect from judicial review the imprudence of the agency’s complaint and leave standing a legal theory that it can thereafter use at the behest of organized labor to deprive less financially resourceful employers of the ability to make fundamental business decisions long protected by law. 

The loss of 9,000 jobs in South Carolina today is just the beginning.  After all, why invest in a country where the government has declared unlawful a business’s decision to open a non-union second production line to protect the company’s continued production from the economic consequences of union-encouraged strikes? 

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