Boeing unleashes PR campaign to save a factory—and jobs

On Thursday, Boeing launched a PR campaign to prevent the shuttering of a major aircraft factory in Southern California, a factory that employs about 14,000 people, who make the C-17 cargo plane. “The company ran full-page advertisements in local newspapers, including The Times , and about 450 union members staged a rally near the plane’s assembly line in Long Beach urging Congress to buy more of the aircraft,” W.J. Hennigan wrote for The Los Angeles Times . “In Washington, 18 U.S. sena…