‘It’s because we were union members’: Boeing fires workers who organized
Workers terminated by the aircraft maker in South Carolina see their dismissals as part of efforts to stifle a nascent union
Richard Mester worked for Boeing in South Carolina as a flight safety inspector for five years before being suddenly fired – along with two other employees – in November 2018 for allegedly failing to report a bird strike. However, the bad news also came shortly after the company was told Mester had been elected a union steward.
“I have 30 years’ experience as an engine guy, so I was taken back by it because I don’t miss bird strikes,” Mester told the Guardian.