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Boeing’s 787 Choice Could Gut Washington State’s Aircraft Industry
Hit hard by the collapse of the airplane market, Boeing will decide as early as next month whether to consolidate its two 787 Dreamliner assembly lines in Washington and South Carolina at a single site. If it does, the 30,000-employee widebody jet plant in Everett is expected to be the loser (www.seattletimes.com) Mehr...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The union and work comp situation in Washington make this decision a no brainer
Only one question is does Boeing build a safer jet in Everett vs Charleston?
Boeing once led the World. A combination of internal failures, Globolist sponsoring Airbus, and the devastating affects of the Pandemic have crippled this Company. We need Boeing to succeed. It starts with a gut wrenching restructuring that allows for survival. It isn't pretty or popular but must be done. The Market will turn and Boeing tneeds to be fit and ready to seize the day.
I can tell you from experience in a different industry how a union shop can bring a company to its knees. Restrictive work rules, skilled workers required to do unskilled work, excessive demands at the bargaining table. Slow wobble to get demands met(looks busy but not doing anything). And the ability to strike but impossible by law or circumstance to hire replacement workers(scabs). Huge strike funds available so striker feels no pain....etc etc. if the wrong worker,picks up the wrong tool...shop Steward called and work ceases for a while. Usually, when open shop competition hits, the union workers finally realise,that management and workers are in the same boat. Helpful when all try to keep the boat afloat.
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Dangerous downtown Seattle and a mayor without a clue would be enough for me to vote move.
Now that the subsidies are not longer on the table, Boeing needs to move all its operations financially out of Washington state and diversified. Its Armed Forces contracts should go to Florida and New Brunswick Canada. Its future 737 and any aircrafts built for 300 sea or less should seriously go to Toronto Canada. Its Dreamliner is good at its South Carolina but be better off in Massachusetts where the workforce and logistics are better for Boeing future.
The Unions in Seattle and in its States has been too stomach heavy, greedy union organization, a 230% slower production rate year after year, Union officials who have not worked physically making well over $200,000us a year is totally unacceptable when a huge part of that was tax payers subsidies. Seattle facilities should only be use for older aircraft upgrades modernizations and speciality modification for air force contracts. The Washington State facilities need a huge 600% ramp down if Boeing is to be successful after 2021.