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Boeing worker unit unionizes in South Carolina

By Associated Press
Published: June 1, 2018, 5:09pm

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Flight-line employees at Boeing Co.’s South Carolina plant have voted to unionize in a rare victory for organized labor in the South.

News outlets report 104 of the 169 workers who cast ballots Thursday voted to have the International Association of Machinists represent them in collective bargaining. The same union failed to attract enough support to represent all of the plant’s hourly workers last year.

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