Boeing VP to testify before Congress

Embroiled in a fight with the National Labor Relations Board over the company's decision to locate a new plant to build airplanes in South Carolina rather than labor-friendly Washington state, Boeing Vice President J. Michael Luttig will testify before a Senate committee this week.
 
Luttig, who doubles as Boeing's general counsel, will be one of four panelists at the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing on the state of the American middle class.
 
The panel will be called "The Endangered Middle Class: Is the American Dream Slipping Out of Reach for American Families?"

Luttig figures to get questions about the NLRB's lawsuit against Boeing that contends the company is putting the new plant in South Carolina and not Seattle as retaliation for strikes by workers there.
 
Republicans have used the lawsuit to argue that the Obama administration is too friendly with labor unions. Likely GOP presidential candidate and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty penned an op-ed criticizing the lawsuit, and he called it "preposterous" in the first GOP debate in South Carolina last week.
 
Luttig has said the NLRB's case is based on incorrect information.