**FILE** Protesters hold signs outside a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform field hearing on a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing Co., in North Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2011. (Associated Press)
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka praised the National Labor Relations Board's sweeping new rules approved Wednesday that make it easier for unions to gain members at companies that have long rebuffed them. (Associated Press)
Boeing employees work in the 787 Dreamliner aft-body assembly building in June in Charleston, S.C. It's not immediately clear how a National Labor Relations Board dispute involving the South Carolina plant will be affected by aerospace giant Boeing reaching a tentative labor contract with the Machinists union this week. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)
Peter C. Schaumber, conservative former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, says the board's liberal majority is skirting rules and going behind the back of its only conservative member in its fight against Boeing. (Associated Press)
Charleston, S.C., residents listen as Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board answers questions presented to him by a congressional panel at the Charleston County Council Chambers on Friday. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)