Boeing

Even if Boeing can assure safety on the plane, the bigger issue for the company might now be one of perception.

The crash of a Boeing 737 in Ethiopia prompted Donald Trump to call new airplanes less safe than old ones.

Two recent deadly plane crashes have prompted many countries to direct airlines to ground these planes out of concern that the crashes may be the result of a failure of the model.

Search and rescue personnel carry a body bag containing remains of a passenger from Lion Air Flight 610 at the Tanjung Priok port on October 30th, 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In their bid to unionize, one relatively small group of Boeing workers in the South has lately drawn some bigger-name supporters.

In this historically anti-union state, organizing even a small number of workers is a big deal.

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Boeing workers in Washington State have been unionized for decades; their counterparts in South Carolina recently voted out the union in a landslide. Pacific Standard compares conditions in both workplaces, a year after South Carolina's historic vote.

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