This nutbag in 2014 about Boeing...
Though not a 2014 event, any list of the absurd things Sawant has done or said would not be complete without her call for machinists to take over Boeing after the union rejected a new contract deal. She said,
“The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do… We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines…We don’t need the executives; we need Boeing to be under democratic, public ownership by workers, by the community…Let’s redo the machines to build mass transit and help society.”
My father worked for McDonnell DougLas before it became Boeing. He also worked at the old St. Louis Car Compay during a temporary layoff. They made subway cars. I’ll ask him what he thinks of the feasibility of this plan.