Boeing really can't get out of their own way and now this strike by the Machinists is just entrenched at enormous cost to the company. Boeing and its largest union appear to be digging in for a long fight — even as some striking workers...
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I mentioned the other day that Boeing and the Machinists had come to a deal. Well, a deal requires the membership ratifying the contract that the members very much did.
I guess Boeing decided that planes falling apart in the sky due to its grotesque profit-taking and unionbusting was maybe a time not to double down on that ideology. Boeing.
On January 3, 1921, the right-wing Supreme Court threw issued its decision in Duplex Printing Press Co v. Deering. In this case, the Court threw out protections for secondary boycotts that were codified in the Clayton Act. In doing so, the Court once again proved...
On July 8, 1966, the International Association of Machinists voted to go on strike against five major airlines. It started the following day, with 35,000 members going on strike, slowing.
Good news from Apple workers: Apple employees at a Baltimore-area store have voted to unionize, making it the first of the company’s 270-plus stores in the United States to join.
The International Association of Machinists had hopes to organize Boeing's plant in South Carolina, which exists precisely because Boeing executives wanted to bust the unions in their Seattle plants. It did not end well. Organizers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers failed...
Since we've been talking about SEIU's now failed deal with Airbnb, this is also very interesting: Uber announced an agreement on Tuesday with a prominent union.