History, sometimes, has a way of repeating itself in some ways. At least that's what Andrew Hedden, the associate director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington, says when it comes to labor and Boeing. “The days of the Boeing Bust and how similar that is to the way things are today," Hedden said. "You have a company in crisis, you have a workforce that’s feeling squeezed,” Hedden explained that Boeing nearly went bankrupt in the early 1970s and laid off about 60% of its workforce. READ MORE: https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/aerospace/boeing/similarities-between-machinists-strike-1977-and-current-strike/281-d93f02cd-81b1-4804-be47-f196c82e01ec