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Washington’s best straight truck driver? A Boeing machinist

Jul 13, 2022

Carl Gibson will compete in the ‘straight truck’ category at the National Truck Driving Championships Aug. 16-19 in Indianapolis.

SPEEA workers at Boeing split in narrow votes on contract extension

Mar 18, 2020

A unit of over 12,000 engineers narrowly voted to accept a four-year contract extension, while a unit of 5,000 technical workers voted to reject it.

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Machinists win toehold at Boeing South Carolina plant

Jun 11, 2018

South Carolina is the least-unionized state in the nation, with just 2.6 percent of workers in a union, and its governor wants to keep it that way.

OE 701 cries foul at Boeing use of “rat” contractor at Gresham plant

Feb 13, 2018

Integrity Machinery Moving is accused of underbidding union contractors while employing nonunion workers and paying them below area-standard wages and benefits.

Boeing South Carolina votes to stay nonunion

Feb 16, 2017

South Carolina Boeing rejected the Machinists Union by a three-to-one margin

Boeing terminates contract with union paint contractor

Dec 5, 2016

147 Machinists-represented workers will be terminated, though many may end up being hired by the new contractor.

At a Boeing paint contractor, workers vote to join Machinists union

Jul 11, 2016

An 11th-hour anti-union blitz fell flat at a contractor where workers make half the wage of their union counterparts.

At a Boeing contractor in Portland, workers vote whether to go union

Jun 24, 2016

Well-paid professional union-busters will try to talk low-wage workers out of unionizing.

‘Fighting Machinist’ Sam Beekman is in the battle of his life against ALS

Apr 29, 2015

Beekman, a Boeing machinist, will take part in the 3-mile Southwest Washington Walk to Defeat ALS

Organized Labor — Year 2014 in Review

Dec 30, 2014

Union experiments with movement building pay off in fast-food strikes, minimum wage increases