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South Carolina Boeing Workers Vote for “Microunion”
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30415
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , principle of legality , unit (ring theory) , join (topology) , workforce , aerospace , aeronautics , engineering , political science , law , business , management , psychology , economics , computer science , mathematics education , programming language , mathematics , combinatorics
A group of about 200 flight readiness technicians at Boeing's South Carolina jetliner factory has voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Boeing tried to have the election stopped on the grounds that the microunit of only 176 workers in a workforce of more than 6,000 was not an appropriate unit. The company has announced it will challenge the legality of the bargaining unit. The 104–65 vote to join the IAM comes one year after Boeing defeated a plantwide union drive.