This paper reports some of our main findings in 'Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers' (Yale University Press, 2010 and 2011) and raises questions that might serve to stimulate discussion about the health and vitality of labor unions in the Pacific Northwest at these...

This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles...