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South Carolina Governor-elect Nikki Haley says that her appointee to the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation will help Boeing to fight unionization in its Charleston plant. She said that her pick had previously fought organizing efforts by the United Auto Workers, and would be able to fight the International Association of Machinists as well. Workers voted no on a union in Boeing's Charleston plant in September 2009, but the union says that it has not given up, with a spokesman adding that organizing was protected under federal law. Boeing decided to expand to Charleston in 2009 over the objections of workers at other plants, and the lack of unions in South Carolina was a large factor in their decision. The move caused an eight-week strike at a Boeing factory in Washington State.