Posted on 12/08/2011 3:10:44 PM PST by jazusamo
Boeing's Machinists voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve the deal announced a week ago, providing an immediate economic boost and the prospect of aerospace job security in the Puget Sound region.
The vote was 74 percent in favor, sealing five years of labor peace for Boeing by extending the current Machinists contract to September 2016.
In that period, Boeing plans to pump out jets at unprecedented rates. Beyond that, the deal commits Boeing to build the new version of its single-aisle jet due to enter service in 2017 — the 737 MAX — in Renton.
Last month, a report commissioned by Gov. Chris Gregoire estimated that 8,000 direct jobs and another 12,000 indirect jobs in Washington state were at stake with the MAX decision, as well as $500 million a year in tax revenue.
The yes vote is also expected to end the National Labor Relations Board case against Boeing, as the union said it would withdraw its complaint and the NLRB has signaled it will then drop the charge.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Boeing Ping!
What a machine.
... I thought of Bob Dornan and that Sanchez thief and ...
I think it was Carl Sagen that had the show, "Connections"
I think I'm getting older.
Cool Video - The Production of Boeing 737 “Florida One” in time lapse photography. If you blink you may miss me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=zKnsyYbfC60&feature=popular
Twenty or so years ago the wife and I were headed north on 395 just north of Adelanto, CA. All of a sudden the wife said “WHAT’S THAT?,” she was really excited. It was a B2 headed right over us at about 700 or 800 feet going from East to West, probably headed to Edwards AFB. I rolled the window down and couldn’t even hear it, it was a beautiful sight.
Agreed, it’s good, both for WA and SC.
Thanks for the great video link. That is one BIG spray booth! LOL!
James Burke was the host. An outstanding show for all ages.
So I take it this means no new high paying jobs in South Carolina?
Union bosses and their enablers in the Obama administration again keep their grasp on union jobs with union dues going directly to keeping the entrenched Dem pols in power.
Chocta alea est.
The die is cast. South Carolina’s going to continue to grow. If it takes fifty years, Boeing will have qualified assembly workers and engineers in a right to work state.
Learned a classic lesson in the last couple of decades - never sole source your supply chain, especially your labor supply chain.
It looks to me like the union jobs stay in WA and the new SC plant will go on as non union, just like the employees voted about a year ago and the NLRB suit will be dropped.
I don’t know what the wage scale in the SC Boeing plant is but the employees seemed happy to have voted non union.
And one heck of a eco-friendly ventilation system. You can walk in their when there is no spraying going on and there is zero aroma from paint.
The biggest different is WA Unions have a nasty record of going on strike every fours years. Boeing can't keep shutting down production for 60 days at a time. The last time it hurt the company in a major way.
I wonder how many (of our) synapses were connected the way THEY wanted them to be ...
I didn’t realize the SC employees still had a union. I knew it’s a right to work state but I thought they voted the union out after Boeing bought the plant, I know they had an election about the union.
We’ve lived here about 15 years now, I well remember the union strikes at Boeing and especially the last one you mentioned and how it hurt them.
Thanks for the info.
“I watched a speciel last night on “Modern Marvels” about the B2 bomber.
What a machine.”
It sure is, and we should have built many more than we have. There are billions in sunk engineering costs, and only 18 (IIRC) planes left to show for it.
People complain about the idea of an $800 million airplane, I guess they don’t realize a 747 goes for about $200 million. If we’d built, say, 100 B-2s, the cost would have gone down to about double a 747, a real steal given the advanced technology involved. Plus we could afford to lose a few from attrition or enemy action.
South CarolinaFrom the article:
The union will inform the government that its grievance with Boeing over the placement of work in South Carolina is resolved. With that settlement, the National Labor Relations Board will likely drop the case against Boeing.
A good day for South Carolina.
“It is a great day. Never in my 25 years at Boeing have I ever seen IAM settle on a contract so fast, and by such a huge margin. Both sides knew a long strike next September would have meant the end of production in Renton.”
Actually, by the time this contract concludes, China will be producing jets that will compete against both Boeing and Airbus...so this acceptance was a VERY WISE move by the IAM. They will have a lot more to worry about next time around.
“People complain about the idea of an $800 million airplane...”
And the plane would have cost some $10 billion a copy, if they had built 2 of them.
The idea of criticizing the cost of a program by diving the total cost by the number built ANGERS the hell out of me in these cases, when we never got near going into a production mode.
In fact, had we actually produced even 100 copies of this bird (still a puny amount), the average, per airplane, cost would have wound up being in line with the B51 and the B1, when factoring in inflation. This was not an overly expensive aircraft to produce...but if I asked GM for a one-of-a-kind car model, I’d have to pay well over $100M for that one car.
That we allow labor unions to exist in the United States with the protection and encouragement of the government is admission of the general belief that Karl Marx was right.
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