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An NLRB spokeswoman said the agency had until Friday to respond to the committee's request. The board sued Boeing in April, claiming the manufacturer located its assembly line in South Carolina to retaliate against Washington state union workers who went on strike in 2008. The NLRB wants that work returned to Washington state, even though the company has already built a new South Carolina plant — the largest single industrial investment in the state's history — and hired 1,000 workers. Most 787s are being assembled in Washington state by members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Boeing expects to deliver the first one to a customer later this year, and with more than 800 orders, it's expected to be a major seller for years. Boeing has said stopping work on 787s in South Carolina would be impermissibly punitive because it would effectively shut it down. The Chicago-based company has also taken issue with the labor board's claim that the company removed or transferred any work from its Puget Sound facility, saying all the work in South Carolina will be new and that no union member has lost a job over the action. The wide-ranging dispute has drawn attention to the anti-union reputation of South Carolina, a right-to-work state where individual employees can join unions voluntarily, but unions cannot force membership across entire worksites. Like many others, the state also bars government employees from collective bargaining. In 2009, just 5.4 percent of the state's workers were covered by unions, according to federal Census data. "This isn't about harming South Carolina employees," said Catherine Fisk, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine who specializes in labor issues. "What makes it, assuming the facts are proved, illegal for the company to decide to locate work in South Carolina rather than in Washington is the need to protect the Washington employees from retaliation and from the fear that they'll be retaliated against again in the future if they exercise their statutory rights." Union issues also spill over into state government affairs. A week into office, Haley was sued by the Machinists union for saying the state would try to keep unions out of the Boeing facility. In a February show of disdain for unions, dozens of House members co-sponsored a now-stalled bill that would have exempted businesses from a proposed federal rule that they notify workers of their rights to unionize. The executive director of a pro-union group said Wednesday that, while the congressional hearing is a distraction, the NLRB's legal case represents a crucial opportunity for parties on both sides to make their arguments — and for the federal agency to do its job. "It's important for South Carolinians to know that it isn't about the status of the state as a right-to-work state. This is simply about the NLRB, the agency charged with enforcing our nation's labor law, doing its job," said Kimberly Freeman Brown of American Rights at Work. "The sad reality of it is that this is a political game that is being played out at a very serious time for workers in our nation's history." Republicans and business groups say the board'