Is the NLRB Going to Drop Its Case Against Boeing?
The Associated Press reports that Boeing is close to striking a new four-year collective bargaining agreement with its unionized employees in Washington state that will likely put a stop to the National Labor Relations Board's controversial prosecution of the company for opening a new production facility in right-to-work South Carolina. As the AP story notes:
If the deal is finalized, it would appear to leave in place the work at a new $750 million Boeing plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state where the company opened a new production line for its 787 airplane….
The new agreement guarantees that a different aircraft — the 737 Max — would be assembled at union facilities in Renton, Wash., said Tom Wroblewski, president of Machinists Union District 751.
Wroblewski said that if union members vote to approve the deal in the coming weeks, the union would inform the NLRB that it has no further grievances with Boeing.
Read the whole story here. For details of the NLRB's dubious case against Boeing, see here.
