Posts tagged aerospace workers
USC faculty groups vote to unionize and university vows to challenge it
June 7, 2026 // Not all eligible USC faculty have been supportive. The effort drew opposition from full-time non-tenure faculty at the Gould School of Law, who said in spring that they were “unanimously opposed to the effort to include us.” The group cited American Bar Assn. accreditation standards that it said already provided workers with protections “reasonably similar to tenure” and encouraged law faculty to remain out of university unions. Some professors in pharmacy, engineering and education schools also publicly opposed unionizing.
Boeing says it’s going to start furloughing ‘a large number’ of its white-collar employees amid strike
September 20, 2024 // Boeing is slated to furlough thousands of employees after 30,000 workers began a strike last week. The strike halted production of key planes like the 737 MAX. Boeing's last strike in 2008 caused significant revenue losses, highlighting the high stakes.