The cost of labor strife is a real and easily calculated business expense. The probability in different locales can easily be calculated from company experience or from analysis of state data on rates of strikes as can the duration. The lost productivity and cost of the strike is similarly straightforward. Any MBA student could spend a week in the library and come up with a close estimate. Or you could get an external price tag put on it by purchasing insurance against it and letting the actuarial scientists at the insurance company calculate it out. It is absurd for the NLRB to require that Boeing pretend that this easily predictable expense does not exist. Given that it is a real and predictable expense it is irrational for the NLRB to insist Boeing make a business decision but ignore a huge expense element. It is also absurd for the NLRB to impute a motive to Boeing without supporting data. All Boeing has to do is look at the auto industry – thriving profitable plants in the right-to-work South and bankrupt failed enterprises in the Unionized Michigan environment. If the NLRB extortion prevails Boeing should place the plant in Canada or Mexico or another environment that is favorable not stick with a hostile environment in Washington state. It should also be noted that no American government, state or federal, should have the right to compel a worker against their will to join a union and pay dues, especially a politically active union working on causes he or she does not support.