NPR - "Romney Charge: NLRB Opposes Jobs in Right-to-Work States"

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Romney raises the issue of whether President Obama's pro-union NLRB appointees are actually anti-employment.

http://www.nhpr.org/romney-charge-nlrb-opposes-jobs-right-work-states

“You can't have the federal government, through its friends at the National Labor Relations Board, saying to a company like Boeing that you can't build a factory in a non-union state."

Romney’s talking about a complaint filed with the NLRB by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The union said Boeing aimed to punish it for conducting strikes. The punishment? Boeing opened a factory in South Carolina to build the company’s newest passenger jet, the 787 Dreamliner. Most of the jets would still come out of plants near Seattle, but some would come from South Carolina.

Boeing denies it was trying to retaliate for past strikes. Right now, we won’t even try to answer who did what. Our focus is just on what Romney said happened. Namely, that the NLRB told Boeing it couldn’t open a factory in a non-union state.

NLRB spokesperson, Nancy Cleeland, says Romney has it wrong. Cleeland says the complaint is based on facts that suggest Boeing wanted to get back at the union. She says the right to work law in South Carolina was irrelevant.

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1. Distortions and outright lies

are the GOP's stock-in-trade. The sheep will lap up this codswollop like mother's milk.