Boeing

  • NLRB May Lose Quorum in 2012, Suspending Progress
    Nick Johnson
    Oct 17 2011 - 12:08pm

    The Labor Board, under attack since it investigated Boeing for retaliating against union workers, could be soon crippled. That would shut one of the last avenues for expanding workers’ legal rights.

  • Corporate America in a Tizzy over Labor Board’s Boeing Order
    Jane Slaughter
    May 25 2011 - 2:15pm

    When the Labor Board told Boeing it couldn’t retaliate against workers who exercise their right to strike, Republican lawmakers and the Chamber of Commerce reacted as if Stalin himself had taken over the federal government.

  • VIDEO: NLRB Slaps Boeing for Punishing Strikers

    The National Labor Relations Board told Boeing this week that it can’t retaliate against workers who exercise their right to strike, a fundamental right guaranteed by labor law for 80 years. The airplane manufacturer took work away from union shops in Washington state, shifting its production to right-to-work South Carolina, where executives had already crushed the Machinists union.

  • Machinists Sue South Carolina Governor for Anti-Union Threats

    Anti-union rhetoric and threats are emanating from new governors in several states, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida. But none has been so explicit as South Carolina, where incoming Governor Nikki Haley has announced her determination to specifically keep unions out of a new Boeing plant near Charleston.

  • Machinists Size Up Boeing's No-Strike Demand
    Tiffany Ten Eyck
    Oct 27 2009 - 10:26pm
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    After years of struggling to get its new 787 Dreamliner aloft, Boeing Co. is still mired in malfunction. Company execs are using their missteps as an excuse to seek a no-strike clause and to move some production out of Washington state, where the Machinists union (IAM) represents the workforce.