Boeing Starts Union ‘Education Sessions’ as Labor Movement Stirs
Boeing Co. has started offering workers at a planemaking factory in South Carolina “education sessions” about the implications of joining a union, as a crippling strike at its sites in the Pacific Northwest puts the spotlight on the resurgence of organized labor in the US.
The company is holding the voluntary meetings in response to “questions and concerns from many of you about union organizing activity taking place” at the facility in North Charleston, according to an Oct. 7 memo by Scott Stocker, a Boeing vice president and general manager of the 787 Dreamliner program.
