Boeing Workers’ Vote Wednesday Could Be an ‘Earthquake in the South’
- Wednesday vote by 3,000 holds high stakes for all sides
- Anti-union effort includes Super Bowl ad, mandatory meetings
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At a Monday rally in a North Charleston hotel conference room, South Carolina State Representative David Mack looked out on about a hundred supporters of the long-shot campaign to unionize the city’s Boeing Co. plant.
Noting the aggressive opposition from management and the state business lobby, including a battery of anti-union commercials on local TV, the Charleston Democrat quipped: "After seeing some of those commercials, I was almost afraid to come in here."