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Boeing is adding contract workers at the North Charleston, SC Boeing 787 plant

Boeing (Chicago) is adding hundreds of contract workers at its Boeing 787 North Charleston, South Carolina assembly plant to help deal with production problems according to the Wall Street Journal and The Post and Courier.

According to the WSJ, “Boeing is hiring more than 300 contract mechanics and inspectors immediately and could increase that number to between 500 and 1,000, according to three people familiar with the hiring. Those workers would assist the more than 7,000 people Boeing employed at the Charleston plant.”

Read the full report from The Post and Courier: CLICK HERE

Copyright Photo: Arisara Petersen. The production flight line at North Charleston. The Air India 787s are mainly assembled at Charleston.

TWU Local 555 at Chicago Midway: Southwest wants to outsource some of our ramp work

Southwest Airlines‘ (Dallas) ramp workers at its Chicago (Midway) hub, represented by the Transport Workers Union (TWU), handed out leaflets yesterday (June 19) to passengers at MDW to explain their side in the continuing contract negotiations with the company that began in July 2011 but so far have resulted in little progress according to this article by CBS News.

TWU says Southwest wants the contract authority to replace up to 20 percent of the TWU workers with contract workers provided by (lower cost) independent contractors.

Is the beginning of the end of friendly labor relations at Southwest?

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In other news, Southwest has begun retiring its 25 Boeing 737-500s (the first two – 513 and 519 have been retired).

Copyright Photo: Roy Lock.

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