Nikki Haley: Obama Admin's Job-Killing Boeing Decision Is 'Worst Thing' For Economy

As you may know, the Obama administration's National Labor Relations Board is trying to tell the Boeing Company how to run its business. To wit, the NLRB is telling Boeing that it cannot open a plant in business-friendly South Carolina. South Carolina is a right-to-work state, meaning that it has "a law against compulsory union membership" -- so is the NLRB retaliating on behalf of labor?

It's the first time a federal agency has intervened to tell an American company where it can and cannot operate a plant within the U.S. It lays the foundation of a regulatory wall with one express purpose: to prevent the direct competition of right-to-work states with union-shop states.

Libertarian labor expert Richard Epstein delivers some background:

The National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") [has filed] unfair labor charges on behalf of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union against the Boeing Company. Why? Boeing had the audacity to invest $2 billion in a new South Carolina facility where it would assemble its 787 Dreamliner---a job that Boeing assigned to 1000 non-union workers starting this coming July.

Acting NLRB General Counsel, Lafe Solomon, wants that work to be brought back to Washington state and the Portland, Oregon area, where Boeing has its current Dreamliner facilities....

But South Carolina governor Nikki Haley wants to know why Washington should get those jobs instead of South Carolina. (Washington is a union-shop state.) She appeared on Fox and Friends this morning to challenge the NLRB's complaint against Boeing.

Here is what she said:

For more background on this case---and for more information on the question of whether the NLRB should even exist -- check out Epstein's full piece.