Plenty. We’ve spent at lot of time at the WRC looking business decision-making and considering how public policies shape the competitive environment for employers. A fundamental premise: Investors and employers have choices.

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against the Boeing Company, alleging that the decision to open a second 787 production facility in South Carolina was illegal retaliation against the machinists’ union. The NLRB overreach would replace employer choice with administrative fiat.

AWB president Don Brunell focuses his column this week on the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint. (See also the AWB blog post on the column.)

The NLRB’s position puts our economic recovery at risk. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized, “It would essentially give labor a veto over management decisions about where to build future plants. And it would undercut the right-to-work statutes in 22 American states — which is no doubt the main union goal here.”

Allowing the government or unions to dictate investment decisions and plant locations is a very bad precedent to set, whether it be Congress, the president or regulators like the NLRB.

A good round-up of editorial responses to the complaint can be found on the NAM Shopfloor blog.