Boeing’s Australian Workers Want Their Union

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A group of 25 workers at a Boeing subsidiary in Sydney are fighting for the right to collectively bargain after Boeing’s repeated refusals to meet their demands. The workers, employed with Hawker de Havilland, have demanded union recognition since 2007.

Boeing’s Australian subsidiary has 1,300 employees and close to 80 percent are covered under contracts. Despite this union density, the employer has shut some workers out of bargaining—and the pay and work standards that accompany it.

Hawker de Havilland has refused to enter into negotiations with the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists & Managers. The company brought scabs in from the U.S. to replace striking workers after they began holding 24-hour work stoppages in May. Help these workers gain union recognition by writing to Boeing executives in protest: patrick.c.mckenna@boeing.com and mark.d.ross@boeing.com. Find out what more you can do to help support the APESMA members by emailing infonsw@apesma.asn.au.