Actually, I don’t know all the stuff going on behind the scenes, but I get the feeling that Boeing has lost out to Airbus a couple of times because southern politicians have gotten sick of all the business going to Seattle, and the French have offered to do some of the manunfacturing down there.
If Boeing plants a foot in South Carolina, that will not only get them a non-union labor force, but it will please a lot of the politicians in that part of the country. Boeing needs to get their act together, or they will go the way of General Motors, and I don’t know who will take their place. Lockheed can’t do it all.
After Boeing bought the Vought aircraft plant in SC they had a vote by the workers and they voted the union out.