End of the legal dispute. Last April, the Machinists union turned to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which pressed charges against Boeing management for violating the right to strike (see our dispatch No. 110282) and get an injunction against the aerospace company to prevent it from running its new plant in south Carolina. Tired by a 58-day-long conflict in 2008, Boeing management opened a new plant in the south of the country, in a right-to-work state where unions are particularly weak. However, the NLRB’s legal appeal could have lasted for years and, for Boeing, the threat of the Charleston site closing was weighing over the entire group at a time when orders were precisely going back up. Last October, the management very discreetly got in touch with the IAMAW’s representatives, and ended up reaching an agreement. The union is asking the NLRB to drop the charges, in return for which Boeing offers job security to the employees of the group’s traditional sites, Puget Sound and Portland, Washington. Boeing management has agreed to produce the new 737 max there. Seven hundred orders have been registered and 20,000 direct and indirect jobs are thus secure.
ld have lasted for years and, for Boeing, the threat of the Charleston site closing was weighing over the entire group at a time when orders were precisely going back up. Last October, the management very discreetly got in touch with the IAMAW’s representatives, and ended up reaching an agreement. The union is asking the NLRB to drop the charges, in return for which Boeing offers job security to the employees of the group’s traditional sites, Puget Sound and Portland, Washington. Boeing mana
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