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First Boeing Plane Produced Without Union Labor

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    FBN's Rich Edson on Boeing's first non-union made 787 Dreamliner.

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Take a look everybody.

At -- shares Boeing rolling out the first 787.

Dreamliner from its new assembly plant South Carolina -- Jackson he is there and this is the first Boeing plane produced.

With out union labor historic day rich.

GAAP what do fight that was let's show you the scene here -- check this out.

The -- that's a big -- with -- first 787 dreamliner built at this facility in South Carolina will roll out.

That's the -- that's the plane at at a front of that.

Is a big party while it's a big party because this thing didn't almost happen remember there's been major problems the 787 dreamliner program from -- standpoint.

But that's not -- that National Labor Relations Board fight all started here the expansion.

In to South Carolina the NLRB the machinists union of the General Counsel for the NLRB said this was retaliation.

Against the machinists union.

They were gonna try to stop the expansion here eventually they settle the fight with a new union contract.

Back in Washington State they're gonna build more planes there as well so the NLRB in the union drop their complaint but this really started.

The National Labor Relations -- being in the middle of a massive -- in Washington DC you've got challenges to the NLRB structure right now because of the recess appointments.

And a number of other issues workings of the court system -- I really quick -- -- even speaking with management there of course as some of the folks that are on the ground how -- the overall mood -- -- they really became the center of such a national.

Flight they got a lot of media attention and shareholder attention because the overall mood today there.

-- Well the it with -- NLRB fight they think they were right still on that angle and as far as the mood here today Cheryl they've hired band I think a few of them so -- It's pretty pots at the beautiful -- on their by the way Eric Jackson are Atlanta's -- that's going to be -- -- South Carolina.

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