No, of course Atlas Shrugged has nothing to do with life in modern America:
Ah, that must be the Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Law, or one of the Fairness Laws, or something, right? The WSJ isn’t sure what law the NLRB is talking about, either. Not only do businesses routinely relocate to find the most advantageous environment possible, states and cities compete for that business by calculating their business climate. If this has escaped the notice of the NLRB, perhaps they should get out more.
This will be an important court case, assuming it’s fought. Then again, it’s hard to feel too bad for Boeing — as Mickey says, live by crony capitalism, die by crony capitalism. Sadly, we’ve also seen this sort of corporatism/fascism wasting our space dollars as well, in addition to inhibiting innovation.
With all of the encouragement the business sector gets from Obama, it’s no wonder unemployment is so high.
Who is Shell Oil?
Well, it apparently hinges on whether or not Boeing management actually said they were opening the plant in SC to avoid more strikes, or whether some reporters just said that in their reporting. Apparently saying that is an 8(a)(c) violation of the NLRA, which would be incredibly stupid for management to actually say, just like Hank Rearden was told he can’t *say* that he’s only in it to make money.
Mike,
Yes, I would be surprised if management was that careless in its statements.
Yeah, which is nonsense.. you should be able to say anything you want and move your factory to whereever makes the most sense.