Boeing Runs Away from Its Unions

Yesterday, Boeing announced that it will build its new 787 Dreamliner assembly line in South Carolina, ending a beauty contest between the Palmetto State and its traditional home base of Washington state. Boeing has been on a slow and steady retreat from Washington state, after getting crapped on by the anti-business politicians and unions there for decades. Boeing savvily ran a beauty contest to extract a good economic incentive package from South Carolina, but the outcome was really never in doubt. South Carolina is a right to work state and Boeing is hoping that this will be a fresh start away from the entrenched, intransigent and uncompetitive machinists union up there in Everett.

UPDATE: ...and the union is pissed! It's almost like they feel entitled to build those planes!