Ted Poe: “This piece of legislation is critical to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from disrupting business and job…”

“This piece of legislation is critical to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from disrupting business and job growth by ordering an employer to relocate. The purpose of this board is to protect workers, not to leave them in fear that their jobs may be relocated on the whim of the Board's members. The NLRB has no place in telling businesses where they can operate. Businesses create jobs, not the government. In this economic climate, the last thing we need is for businesses to have any more anxiety preventing them from hiring more workers. Boeing, who the NLRB has attacked, is creating jobs in both South Carolina and Washington. With the attempt by NLRB to force Boeing to move the newly created jobs in South Carolina to Washington, jobs will now be lost in South Carolina. Texas like South Carolina is a Right to Work State. Businesses that operate in non-Right to Work States should not have to be intimidated from opening up locations in Right to Work States like South Carolina and Texas because of concerns that moving to these states will be considered ``transferring'' work. The NLRB should not have the power to force the relocation of a business. It has over a dozen other remedies to protect workers. The National Labor Relations Act needs to be amended to prevent this.”