
**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)

**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)

**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)

Lafe Solomon, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, is accused by the agency’s inspector general of a conflict of interest involving holding stock in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Mr. Solomon has sold the stock and denied any wrongdoing. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)

Lafe Solomon, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, is accused by the agency’s inspector general of a conflict of interest involving holding stock in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Mr. Solomon has sold the stock and denied any wrongdoing. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)

Lafe Solomon, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, is accused by the agency’s inspector general of a conflict of interest involving holding stock in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Mr. Solomon has sold the stock and denied any wrongdoing. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)

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)

Illustration: National Labor Relations Board