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Opponents of the NLRB's complaint against Boeing have criticized Obama's nomination of John Bryson to be Commerce secretary

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The House Oversight Committee chairman said Monday that airplane manufacturer Boeing is at a disadvantage in the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) investigation into its plant in South Carolina because it is up against the government.

"If the labor union wants to make a suit, make a suit, but for the government to use your tax dollars to pursue, I think that's a mistake," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said on MSBNC's "Morning Joe" Monday.
 
Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing in South Carolina last week looking into whether the NLRB's allegation that Boeing decided to build a plant in South Carolina in retaliation for labor strikes by workers at its Puget Sound plant near Seattle was politically motivated.

The National Labor Relations Board's attorney told lawmakers that the suit against Boeing protects workers in every state.

Rep. Darrell Issa is holding a hearing into the National Labor Relations Board's complaint against airplane manufacturer Boeing.

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney has been appointed chairman of a Washington-based business group.

The Business Roundtable, which criticized a federal labor board's complaint against the airplane manufacturer, announced Thursday that McNerney would assume control of the group on Sept. 1.

McNerney said he was honored to be picked.

 “I look forward to working with my colleagues in the business community as we continue to engage policymakers from both parties to ensure that American workers and American businesses prosper together," he said.

"When they stop suing companies that are trying to create jobs, we'll be quiet," Gov. Haley said.

Airplane manufacturing company Boeing will likely lose a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board that begins Tuesday in Seattle, a key Republican senator said Tuesday.

The NLRB has filed a legal complaint against Boeing, alleging the company decided to build the facility in South Carolina in retaliation for labor strikes by workers at its Puget Sound plant near Seattle. The proceeding beginning Tuesday, which is expected to last several weeks, is beginning with a motion to dismiss the case by Boeing.

But Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said in a television interview Tuesday that neither he nor the company was optimistic about the hearing on the verge of beginning. 

"Boeing expects to lose the case today," he said on CNBC's Squawk Box. "So that means for next two years, we're going to have de facto law in this country that if you're a manufacturer that does not have a right to work law, you better think twice before you move or expand in a state with a right to work law.

"So where do you go?" he continued. "Mexico."

On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham called on the White House to disavow a legal complaint filed against Boeing

Boeing celebrated the opening of its 787 plant in South Carolina Friday despite the ongoing lawsuit with the NLRB.