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The Boeing Company Labor Relations Problem

The organization which is the focus of this research is The Boeing Company. Boeing engages in a variety of operations, which span a number of industries, with plants and other operational facilities sited in a wide range of geographic locales. Boeing's primary line of business, however, is large jet aircraft airframe manufacture, and the assembly of airframes, engines, and other components required to produce a large jet aircraft. It is the company's jet aircraft business which is the focus of this research.

While Boeing conducts its jet aircraft manufacturing operations in a wide variety of geographic locations, the great majority of this activity is concentrated in the Puget Sound region of the State of Washington. Again, it is the Puget Sound operations of the company's jet aircraft manufacturing business which is the focus of this research.

On 4 October 1989, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) struck the Boeing Company's Puget Sound area plants (O'Lone, 1989c). The labor dispute would eventually be settled on 20 November 1989, when the IAM voted 81 percent in favor of accepting a company offer (O'Lone, 1989d). The six weeks long strike is the labor relations problem which is examined in this research.

Boeing, at the time of the machinists strike, had a huge order backlog. The company's plants were working around-the-clock shifts to keep up with promised delivery schedules, and, although the company had recruited thousands of workers from outside the state, heavy overtime schedules were still required for production workers.

The primary issues in the dispute between the company and the machinists were (a) compensation levels, (b) how increased compensation would be paid, (c) required overtime, and (d) control over overtime scheduling (Bernstein, Helm & Shao, 1989). For the company, there was another important issue involved in the machinists strike. The IAM contract was the first of several u...

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