Last night I went to a showing of Atlas Shrugged Part 1. The movie is brilliantly done, true to Ayn Rand's novel and very current in its message. I highly recommend everyone see it, take your children and grandchildren who are over 13.

In the movie there is a powerful scene where Dagney Taggart (played perfectly by Taylor Schilling) is confronted by the head of the rail workers union. The union boss, in collusion with government, works and even threatens to derail, no pun intended, Dagney's historic first run down her new John Gault Line, built with Rearden metal. Dagney unceremoniously tells the union boss where to go and says she will seek volunteers to man the locomotive making the run down the new rail line.

Fast forward to this past week and we find the union bosses in the state of Washington partnering with the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) to stop another great American company from launching its premiere new line of aircraft - Boeing.

According to the Steven Greenhouse from the New York Times, "In what may be the strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, the agency filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to force Boeing to bring an airplane production line back to its unionized facilities in Washington State instead of moving the work to a nonunion plant in South Carolina."

So what did Boeing do wrong? It spoke truth to union power.

Steven points out, "In its complaint, the labor board said that Boeing’s decision to transfer a second production line for its new 787 Dreamliner passenger plane to South Carolina was motivated by an unlawful desire to retaliate against union workers for their past strikes in Washington and to discourage future strikes."

Every three years for the past fifteen years the union has struck Boeing. Boeing management wants to insure its customers get their $1 billion each 787 Dreamliner on time, something that makes perfect sense. To insure the production of 787 Dreamliners is not interrupted Boeing built a second production facility in South Carolina, a right to work state. They spent billions building the plant and hired an estimated 1,100 workers to man the South Carolina facility. This new plant in no way negatively impacts workers at the Boeing plants in Washington state.

This action by the NLR sends a chill down every company that has plants in America both in states that that allow unions and those that have right to work laws, like Florida. This is yet another example of how to destroy America's global competitiveness by attacking a great American company like Boeing, which dates back to 1916.

The collusion between government and unions destroyed the John Gault Line in Atlas Shrugged and will just as certainly destroy the Boeing Company. Time to fight - Who is John Galt!