When Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) clashed with a Boeing attorney at a committee hearing earlier this month, he was clearly picking sides in an ongoing fight between the company and thousands of striking workers at a Missouri factory.
But Hawley wasn't just borrowing the labor union's rhetoric as he criticized Boeing's CEO's pay and demanded "fairness" for the workers. As a result of that hearing, Hawley has directly (if perhaps incidentally) empowered labor unions in New York and California, who will find friendlier turf for labor disputes while the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to lack a quorum.
