This entire article is flawed. Events in the three years since publication blow it out of the water.
If anything endangers aircraft production, it's the Machinists.
Not quite. There have been some heroic measures taken by Boeing management...but at a real risk to U.S. industrial infrastructure survival in the commercial sector.
If anything endangers aircraft production, it's the Machinists.
No argument there...can't have Americans making too much, now can we? But that is not the half of it. U.S. engineers are apparently considered too expensive by Boeing as well...and they have been pushing for H1-Bs and the new business model of outsourcing everything if they can...leaving "systems integration."
Correct.
Actually, 2 huge (related) things that make US manufacture too expensive and thus some out-sourcing occurs:
a) concept of MINIMUM WAGE
b) UNIONS - same concept, "I deserve $70k a year for turning screws"
This is all anti-capitalist and in the end will tank all those workers, not to mention the companies (never mind all the other nit-picking regulations that are fascistic). This is also why so many (mostly small, undoubtedly) businesses are using illegals, so they can dodge (a) which is far overvalues alot of simplistic jobs.