Boeing: Dismissing workers rights or practicing good business? [The Conversation]

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/06/boeing-dismissing-workers-rights-or-practicing-good-business-the-conversation.html

Boeing's new nonunion plant in "right-to-work" South Carolina has landed the company in a controversial federal lawsuit. The National Labor Relations Board contends that Boeing is punishing its union workers in Washington for going on strike, and that the move to South Carolina was an illegal one. Boeing is saying that it acted in the best interest of the bottom line. (In other words: With its new plant, it didn't want to factor in the cost of employees who go on strike.) The company's Republican supporters agree: Boeing made a strategic decision during a down economy, and it deserves praise for creating jobs in U.S. The moral quandary is where to side now that the plant is open and employing 12,000 people in South Carolina?