In SC, Boeing goes all out to defeat vote on unionization
At a Monday rally in a North Charleston hotel conference room, Democratic South Carolina state Rep. David Mack looked out on about a hundred supporters of the long-shot campaign to unionize the city’s Boeing plant.
Noting the aggressive opposition from management and the state business lobby, including a battery of anti-union commercials on local TV, Mack quipped, “After seeing some of those commercials, I was almost afraid to come in here.”
Boeing has ample cause for confidence about staying union-free in South Carolina, the nation’s least unionized state where a previous attempt to organize the aircraft factory fizzled before a vote. But the company isn’t leaving anything to chance Wednesday, when about 3,000 employees are eligible to vote on whether to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
The election is the latest round in a long-running, frequently ugly, unusually politicized struggle between the company and the union, which represents about 30,000 Boeing workers in the Seattle area.
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