Well, unless — as Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) quipped in response to Franken — that you wouldn’t have to join a union unless “you wanted a job.” Someone should remind Angry Al that, in a closed-shop state, the laws require employees to be members of a union if the employer is unionized.
Harkin obviously wanted the hearing to be a forum for bloviating in favor of labor unions, the largest campaign contributors to Democrats. Additionally, no Senate hearing would be complete without the usual tactic of blaming George Bush and evil corporate America for a variety of economic ills, and this hearing didn’t disappoint.
But Senator Mike Enzi outfoxed Harkin. He called — as his sole witness — Michael Luttig, general counsel for the Boeing Company and former justice of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Luttig was there to talk about the outrageous complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board against Boeing for opening up a second assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner aircraft in right-to-work South Carolina instead of closed shop Washington state. Like so many large manufacturers, such as Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, and Michelin, companies are realizing the American South provides a highly skilled workforce without the labor boss skim. Why do you think the rust belt is the rust belt?
Angry Al’s act is so much better suited to Saturday Night Live than it is the US Senate.
h/t to Instapundit
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