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On Thursday the Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, announced, that while her state appreciates the jobs that manufacturing plants bring, the unions that sometimes follow them are unwelcome. The Governor drew examples of the negative effects that unions can have by referencing the NLRB challenging Boeing?s decision to move work from the Puget Sound to South Carolina because of difficulties with the union in Washington. Many of the 200 business executives that the Governor was addressing with her anti-union statements believe that she is ?dead on.? Governor Haley?s Democratic opponent, Vincent Sheheen, stated that he believes that South Carolina should remain a right-to-work state to allow workers the choice about whether they are better joining or not joining a union. He further commented that he has no opposition to more jobs for South Carolinians regardless of whether those jobs are union or not.