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Boeing Labor Dispute Is Making New Factory a Political Football

NYT > Business  Thu, 06/30/2011 - 22:20

The challenge to a new Boeing plant in North Charleston by a union in Seattle has turned into a political firefight between the foes and partisans of organized labor.


 

Spat over Boeing plant sparks political storm

MSNBC.com: Business  Mon, 06/06/2011 - 05:30

A 787 Dreamliner being manufactured for customer Japan Airlines  is seen on the production line at the Boeing manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., in February.<br /><br />A feud over Boeing’s decision to assemble some of its new 787 jetliners at a new, non-union facility in South Carolina has mushroomed into a very public and highly political fight.


 

Kent WA police investigating Boeing plant death

Newsvine - business  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 22:15

A Kent Fire Department spokesman says Kent police and Boeing officials are investigating the death of a man at the Boeing plant in the south Seattle suburb.

Capt. Kyle Ohashi said the unidentified man died Wednesday in what Ohashi said "appears to be an industrial accident."