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16 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Washington officials w... · 0 replies · +2 points

Boeing is blackmailing Washington by threatening to create the 2nd assembly line out of state if they do not get a comittment from the union to not cause any more labor disruptions in the future. Carson told our SPEEA president that his goal was to break the Union and he has just issued the ultimatum. He gets his marching orders from McNerney and they are sticking to their failed business plan of spreading the risk (and profits) to the outsourced partners. The Union will be throwing their members under the bus if they agree to give up their only weapon. This is not the Boeing that we've built and the stockholders need to stand up and realize that keeping McNerney and his failed business philosophy was a mistake and a change in course is needed immediately. Boeing was built by the people of Washington and Boeing's survival depends on the loyalty and dedication of the people in Washington which has been proven for decades. Stooping to blackmail will be the straw that breaks Boeing's back if the stockholders don't act quick.

16 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Prosecutors: Agent had... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why does it matter that she was 14 or 18? She is still a child to a 55 yr old man. Any man can tell the difference between a 14 and an 18 yr old once they talk . There is no excuse for him ever putting himself it that situation.

16 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing 787 won\'t fly ... · 0 replies · +1 points

One of the reasons the outsourcing business model for the 787 was developed was to share the risk of building a multibillion dollar airplane. How much money has Boeing not lost due to sharing the risk.? Do the ibusiness partners share the cost of the penalties and cost overruns the 787 program has incurred, or is it just the shareholders employees, and vendors that bear the brunt of a mismanaged program. If Boeing bet the company on the 747 and 777 and survived, it shoud be in a better position to survive the challenges of the 787 . At the time, sharing the risk was probably a good idea, but now it appears that Boeing actually increased it's risk of failure by trying to avoid the finacial risk. of doing it by themselves.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Tentative deal in Boei... · 0 replies · +1 points

You would think Boeing is wanting us to strike. Maybe they need additional excuses for the delays and would like to be able to point the finger at SPEEA now. This contract is so disrepectful, not even a ratification incentive, after giving the IAM 10%. Our negotiators need to explain why they even lifted this offer off the table. Do they really think they did a good job representing us?

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing engineers union... · 2 replies · 0 points

There is not a country in the world or a state in this country who wouldn't want entry into the commercial airplane manufacturing business. The barriers to entry into this market are so high and expensive, there are only two successful companies in the world today. Suggesting that shutting down the Washington factories and moving somewhere else to shave 1 or 2 % of your current 5% labor costs does not make much business sense. Especially when you have 7 years of backlog that customers are demanding now. Boeing is here for multiple reasons; tax incentives, location, trained workforce, equity in infrastucture (land, buildings, tooling) etc.etc.etc. These threats to leave Washington are foolish and I would think shareholders would exert some influence on management who would pursue such a business case just to bust the unions.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing, engineers unio... · 0 replies · +2 points

The worst possible scenario for Boeing is for the IAM to accept this warmed over contract offer and have it's workforce begin coming back to work Sunday night. Productivity was at it's worse before the strike and if the IAM members accept this offer for whatever reason, that means less than half will be compelled to work and accept the conditions of a contract that 80% refused before. Instead of the company capitulating and giving in a little on their 5% labor costs and revising outsourcing language that won't even be needed until the backlog is worked down, they have polarized the workforce and blew the opportunity to increase productivity by "Working Together".

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing, engineers unio... · 0 replies · +2 points

Boeing's corporate outsourcing stategy was developed years ago using laws, rules, and regulations that were on the books during the previous Republican administrations. This new contract looks like the same "Stay the Course" that we have been hearing from Bush. I don't understand why Boeing in staying on this path knowing that the rules are about to change and their business case will have to change too.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing, engineers unio... · 0 replies · +1 points

Or right next to FDR. In case you don't remember history, he was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes. Watch this as a reminder:
Pennyland
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-127989?ref=email

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing, engineers unio... · 6 replies · +4 points

Hang in there IAM, there will be a new sheriff in town after Nov 4. Obama will discourage outsourcing by taking away tax incentives and pay to create American jobs. CEO's will be singing a new tune once Obama changes the rules. Boeing will be forced to change it's outsourcing strategy because that was so yesterday.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boeing, union reach te... · 0 replies · -5 points

I know you did and I respect that, but don't you think the NC see's the bigger picture and has access to more info than you or I do. Afterall, you did vote for them to represent you.

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