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Boeing-Wichita Issues 8,100 Layoff Notices
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| 11 Mar 2005
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Posted on 03/11/2005 1:16:26 PM PST by ladtx
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The other shoe falls in Wichita.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:16:27 PM PST
by
ladtx
To: ladtx
Anti-union end run. Nicely done.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:17:42 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: ladtx
Corporate version of musical chairs.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:18:16 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: glorgau
>>Corporate version of musical chairs.<<
Except they only hire back the "non-dead" wood. Of course, I say this as an ex-boeing employee familiar with the Seattle work environment at the company. Wichita could be different.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:19:48 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
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To: patco13
Agreed. They did indeed have their time. So did the US.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:31:54 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: patco13
Corrupt as they have become in modern times, unions brought you weekends off, Vacation Pay, sick pay, overtime and retirement pay.Yeah, and it kills these super-capitalists every time they think of how that cost them dividends.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:33:02 PM PST
by
raybbr
To: patco13
unions brought you weekends off, Vacation Pay, sick pay, overtime and retirement pay. And don't forget safer working conditions.
To: patco13
Corrupt as they have become in modern times, unions brought you weekends off, Vacation Pay, sick pay, overtime and retirement pay.So.....what? So members are supposed to continue to fork over increasing amounts of money for nothing in return? Is that the cost of the things you site? I'm not sure I get your point. "They've really become corrupt, and exist only to line their own pockets, but we owe them a debt of gratitude which can never be paid off?"
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:36:05 PM PST
by
brewcrew
To: primeval patriot
Unions aren't perfect, but working conditions would be horrible without them.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:41:41 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: patco13
Actually, Federal and State governments brought all those things. Starting in 1905 or so, States legislated hour and pay minimums, benefits, unemployment insurance, etc., and the Federal Government started applying those rules to Federal employees, contracters, and inter-state railroads.
Unions negotiated various of these things, but they didn't take over the workplace until the Federal Government legalized the closed shop in 1935/36. The unions were thereafter acting on behalf of the Government, give or take Taft-Hartley.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:42:28 PM PST
by
nicollo
To: RobRoy
>>Corporate version of musical chairs.<<
>Except they only hire back the "non-dead" wood.
Yep, less chairs left when the music stops.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:48:05 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: RobRoy
Was Wichita where they built the 717?
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:48:18 PM PST
by
Righty_McRight
("Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter" Proverbs 24:11)
To: Righty_McRight
717? Isn't that some sort of temporary name for the DC9 or something like that?
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:57:10 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: Righty_McRight
The 717 is/was Long Beach isn't it?
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:59:19 PM PST
by
Daus
To: RobRoy
I'm not sure. It was the plane they stopped making last year.
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posted on
03/11/2005 1:59:49 PM PST
by
Righty_McRight
("Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter" Proverbs 24:11)
To: Willie Green
How did you miss this one? Sleeping on the job?
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posted on
03/11/2005 2:00:55 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Who is General Chat?)
To: patco13
Corrupt as they have become in modern times, unions brought you weekends off, Vacation Pay, sick pay, overtime and retirement pay. Unions are government-subsidized extortion rackets and must die ASAP.
Free people negotiate for their pay, time off, vacations and the rest. Employers have no special leverage to force people to work for them, unless Big Stupid Government and Big Union thugs intervene.
Screw unions. Greasy, corrupt, lazy aholes.
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posted on
03/11/2005 2:02:20 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: RobRoy
No successor clause in the contracts? This may not be a done deal as yet.
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posted on
03/11/2005 2:34:46 PM PST
by
em2vn
To: Hank Rearden
"...Big Union thugs..." How are they different from Big Business thugs?
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posted on
03/11/2005 2:36:49 PM PST
by
em2vn
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