⁍ Boeing will move the rest of its 787 Dreamliner production to South Carolina in 2021, a cost-cutting strategy.

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⁍ As recently as last year, Boeing was making record numbers of 787s at its Everett widebody hub north of Seattle.

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⁍ Boeing said the single site would improve operational efficiency as the U.S. planemaker adjusts to the market downtown.

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– Boeing’s decision to move the rest of its 787 Dreamliner production to South Carolina in 2021 has union leaders in Washington state scrambling to figure out what the future holds for the huge plant north of Seattle, the Seattle Times reports. According to Reuters, Boeing was making record numbers of 787s at its Everett widebody hub north of Seattle and—since 2012—a second plant in North Charleston, South Carolina. But as recently as last year, Boeing was making record numbers of 787s at its Everett widebody hub and—since 2012—a second plant in North Charleston. But industry officials say it raises the prospect of a another battle between the US planemaker and unions that have unsuccessfully tried to organize in the South Carolina plant. Boeing also said 787 production would continue at the Everett site until a previously announced rate cut to six airplanes a month in 2021. A review of its 787 production strategy, announced in July along with sweeping rate cuts across its widebody programs, had already rattled unions and politicians in Washington state, who see Boeing wavering on its commitment to its Seattle-area birthplace, something the company denies. House of Representatives Democrat Rick Larsen, who chairs the aviation subcommittee and whose district includes the Everett plant, called the decision ‘shortsighted and misplaced’ in a statement this week, and vowed to fight to bring 787 production back to Everett. The earlier decision to move some production to the non-union state of South Carolina was the culmination of a years-old board-led strategy to reduce reliance on Washington state, where Boeing has had stormy relations with unions in the past.