Do Boeing Engineers Have Enough Leverage To Strike?

NPR | Feb. 08, 2013 3:19 a.m.

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Ashley Gross

Boeing engineers in the Pacific Northwest are voting on whether to authorize a strike. The labor dispute is playing out against a dramatic backdrop. The engineers are needed now more than ever to help fix the batteries on Boeing's flagship 787 Dreamliner. That's given them something rare for unions these days: leverage. Ashley Gross of member station KPLU reports.