Union: Export-Import Bank means jobs for U.S.
SEATTLE — The Export-Import Bank is a vital tool for creating American jobs and it must be renewed, say leaders of Machinists Union District Lodge 751. “This is important to us, as Machinists, because the Ex-Im Bank helps Boeing customers line up financing so they can buy the planes we build,” said District President Tom … Read more
Machinists saved 787, union president says
The efforts of Machinists Union members who went above-and-beyond what they were required to do are making it possible for Boeing to deliver its first 787s in 2012. “I firmly believe that without you, there wouldn’t be any 787 deliveries this September – and maybe for years to come,” said Tom Wroblewski, the president of … Read more
Documents: Charleston was Boeing’s riskiest option
SEATTLE – Newly uncovered Boeing Co. documents show the company’s own executives believed that “Project Gemini” – their plan to establish a second 787 line in South Carolina – was the highest-risk option for their new Dreamliner jet and the one most likely to fail. At the same time, a report by a public interest … Read more
Union fights Boeing plan to close NLRB hearing
SEATTLE — Machinists Union District Lodge 751 promised to fight a sweeping request by the Boeing Co. to keep the public – including union members – from hearing important evidence in the National Labor Relations Board complaint regarding Boeing’s decision to transfer its second 787 assembly line. Among the things Boeing doesn’t want the public … Read more
Hearing resumes after judge denies Boeing motion
SEATTLE — A federal law enforcement agency’s hearing on allegations that the Boeing Co. broke federal labor laws when it moved work from its Everett plant to South Carolina resumes Wednesday morning in Seattle. Last week, the federal judge presiding over the case denied a motion by the company’s lawyers to dismiss the complaint filed … Read more
NLRB hearing: Legal maneuvers dominate Day One
SEATTLE — Legal maneuvering and political posturing dominated the first day of hearings in the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against the Boeing Co. As expected, lawyers for Boeing filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleges that Boeing violated the rights of Machinists Union members when it moved 787 final assembly and fabrication … Read more
Union: We’re not out to close Charleston plant
Tom Wroblewski, the president of Machinists Union District Lodge 751 in Seattle, addresses some of the half-truths and misconceptions regarding the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against the Boeing Co. in this open letter to workers at Boeing’s North Charleston site. I’m writing to Boeing workers in South Carolina to address some of the issues … Read more
Boeing to cut 1,800 jobs once S.C. plant is running
Boeing will eliminate as many as 1,800 production jobs on its Everett 787 production lines after it gets its new Dreamliner facility in Charleston running at capacity, according to estimates by the union for hourly workers at the company’s Puget Sound plants. That fact is being obscured by Boeing and its political allies in their … Read more
‘I do expect to lose,’ Boeing lawyer tells Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Boeing Co. will lose in its efforts to defend against a National Labor Relations Board complaint before both an administrative law judge and the NLRB. That’s what Boeing’s lead attorney said Thursday during testimony before a U.S. Senate committee. “I do expect to lose,” said Michael Luttig, who is an executive … Read more
Union: Boeing & allies ‘bumrushing’ the law
SEATTLE — The Machinists Union Thursday issued a point-by-point rebuttal of the deliberately misleading claims being made by Boeing and its political allies in regards to the National Labor Relations Board complaint against the company. “In the furor being stirred up by Boeing and its surrogates, the rule of law is being trampled in a … Read more
