Boeing Punished Unionized Pilots With Layoff, NLRB Judge Rules

The Boeing Co. violated federal labor law when it conducted discriminatory layoffs of unionized instructors who train airline pilots to fly the company’s planes, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

While Boeing had whittled down the group of unionized flight training airplane instructor pilots from about 55 to seven through a series of “antiunion acts” over the course of several years, the remaining pilots’ rejection of a 2020 effort to kick out their union was the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” Administrative Law Judge Gerald Etchingham ruled Friday.

“I find that Boeing was motivated by antiunion animus and ...