A once-in-a-generation convergence of technology and pressure to operate more efficiently has corporations saying many lost jobs may never return.
Freight train drivers who direct 20 billion tons of goods per year have threatened to walk off the job.
If the union wins a dispute over whether two engineers in Miami can join the union that represents more than 25,000 workers at Boeing and other companies, it becomes much easier and less costly for the union to organize workers outside metro Puget Sound. That means the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace has a better chance of re-unionizing the more than 4,000 engineering jobs that Boeing has moved, or plans to move, out of Washington.
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