Wilma Liebman was appointed chairman of the NLRB by President Obama soon after his inauguration. It is clear why: her entire career has been as attorney to unions and the NLRB. Until Obama, she was in the minority (as a Democrat) in fighting for union employee rights. So she was a perfect match for him. And he has since appointed other members to stack the board in his favor.
Given his ideology and pro-union bias, it should be no surprise that his NLRB would attempt to prevent Boeing from opening a plant in a right-to-work state; or that it now wants to greatly strengthen union power over employers and their investment/management decisions.
It should bother everyone that government can interfere with rational business practices. What can possibly justify preventing a business from relocating to reduce labor costs? Or to force it to provide economic justifications for relocation decisions in order to allow unions to bargain over it or even to lose the right to make such decisions?
The board believes that it has the right to force employers to make unions an “equal partner in the running of the business enterprise.” It wants unions to benefit over a business’ owners, shareholders and other employees. But it is creating “rights” that do not exist. Only individuals have rights and our constitution was designed to protect them from government. This is a power grab that represents an abomination of the concept of rights.
Without property rights, no other rights are possible. A business owner’s property in this country must be recognized as his to manage in any legal manner he desires. He should not have to answer to anyone with regard to business location, employees hired or wages paid. While our system has not been truly free for a long time and such rights are constantly abused, we must protect our constitutional Republic and stop the trend toward statism/fascism where government promotes nationalism (over the individual) and controls the use of private property. Start here by pushing back on the NLRB and unions to protect true individual rights.
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