Posted on 03/11/2005 1:16:26 PM PST by ladtx
Associated Press
Boeing-Wichita Issues 8,100 Layoff Notices
Friday March 11, 4:00 pm ET
The 60-day notices went to 5,200 hourly and 2,900 salaried production and service workers, said Boeing spokesman Dick Ziegler. Engineers have not yet received pink slips.
The notices are part of the separation and re-employment process required as the Chicago-based aerospace leader transfers assets to Toronto-based Onex. Workers were asked to sign waivers allowing release of their personnel information to be considered for new employment with Onex.
Onex is forming a separate aircraft company in Wichita, which it has temporarily named Midwestern Aircraft Systems until a more permanent name is determined, said Ziegler, who also received a layoff notice.
In a memo sent Wednesday to employees, Boeing executive Jeff Turner assured employees that receiving a notice is not reason to panic or to assume they would not have a job with Onex.
Onex agreed last month to buy Boeing's massive commercial aircraft plant in Wichita, plus other work sites in Tulsa and McAlester, Okla., for $900 million cash and the assumption of $300 million debt. The sale is part of Boeing's strategy to focus its commercial aircraft business on design and final assembly.
Anti-union end run. Nicely done.
Corporate version of musical chairs.
>>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.
Agreed. They did indeed have their time. So did the US.
Yeah, and it kills these super-capitalists every time they think of how that cost them dividends.
And don't forget safer working conditions.
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?"
Unions aren't perfect, but working conditions would be horrible without them.
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.
>>Corporate version of musical chairs.<<
>Except they only hire back the "non-dead" wood.
Yep, less chairs left when the music stops.
Was Wichita where they built the 717?
717? Isn't that some sort of temporary name for the DC9 or something like that?
The 717 is/was Long Beach isn't it?
I'm not sure. It was the plane they stopped making last year.
How did you miss this one? Sleeping on the job?
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.
No successor clause in the contracts? This may not be a done deal as yet.
"...Big Union thugs..." How are they different from Big Business thugs?
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