Obama Jobs Push Collides With NLRB Complaint on Boeing Factory

President Barack Obama, emphasizing job creation in his 2012 re-election push, faces a drag on his message from his own appointees to the board created as a watchdog for workers’ rights.

After picking the members of the National Labor Relations Board, Obama finds himself pressured by Republicans and business groups to distance himself from the NLRB’s complaint against Boeing Co.’s 2009 decision to build a factory in South Carolina.