[POSTANDCOURIER] If the bosses within the Machinists union and the NLRB had gotten their way, those 2,000 new jobs wouldn't be on their way to Charleston -- and the 6,000 workers who have jobs there today would be without work as well.

That wouldn't have been an unintended side effect of the NLRB's action; instead, it was the direct intention of the board to keep these jobs out of Charleston. As they say in the software business, it was a feature, not a bug.

It's worth noting that labor heads with the Machinists are back in town trying to organize workers at the North Charleston plant. And the union is back in the news as strong financial supporters through its PAC of Democratic Congressional candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch.

Boeing workers, and all of us in the Charleston community, should be asking the union, and Busch, some direct questions. Do union bosses still wish that the Charleston plant had never opened? Why do union bosses believe that hiring workers in our community somehow hurts workers in Washington State? Can workers really trust a union that wished they never had their jobs?