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Boeing Workers Approve 8-Year Contract Extension
NYT ^ | 1/4/14 | STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Posted on 01/05/2014 2:41:49 AM PST by paudio

The workers voted 51 percent to 49 percent in favor, responding to pressures from top union officials and Washington State lawmakers, who warned that Boeing might place 777X production elsewhere, potentially costing Washington more than 10,000 jobs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: boeing; union; washington
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I didn't see this posted. I searched for Boeing it came up empty.
1 posted on 01/05/2014 2:41:49 AM PST by paudio
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To: paudio

Interesting ... right into and almost through the next preisidency.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 2:44:48 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: paudio

51-49 is pretty damn close .... the sensible people in that union have a really bare majority


3 posted on 01/05/2014 2:47:26 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Yeah, sure union officials told the membership to vote for this. I believe that about as much as I believe Obama is a Christian.


4 posted on 01/05/2014 2:49:16 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Actually the union bosses may indeed have begged them to vote yes. Can you imagine losing 10,000 dues paying members to some RTW state?


5 posted on 01/05/2014 2:51:47 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: paudio

Union bosses ought to be lined up blind-folded in front of a Gatling gun and pulped.


6 posted on 01/05/2014 2:58:22 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett

Or do like North Korea ....

Woof!


7 posted on 01/05/2014 3:13:14 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: EQAndyBuzz; jimfree

The local bosses told them to vote no, and didn’t even want them to vote on the new offer by Boeing. The national union told them to vote on it, and to vote yes.

I have no doubts that Boeing would have had production for this move to a union-free state if it had been a no vote. Boeing’s latest offer was not that much different than their first offer iirc.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 3:13:39 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: paudio

What the heck kind of a machinists union do they call themselves if they can’t put their workplace out of business??? Boy, the old Eastern Airlines local could teach these guys a thing or two ...


9 posted on 01/05/2014 3:15:26 AM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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To: 21twelve; EQAndyBuzz

Thanks for the clarification. The local bosses apparently still believe you can get Sauvignon Blanc by squeezing a rock if you just apply enough pressure.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 3:17:28 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: paudio

The 49% means sabotage on the planes they make.


11 posted on 01/05/2014 3:18:22 AM PST by AdaGray
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To: 21twelve

A friend has a son who is a machinist and works at the Everett facility.

He was predicting after the first vote lost that Boeing would sweeten the offer, but they would still reject it.

I predicted a re-vote and that it would pass once the dumchits realized Boeing was serious about moving it to a different state.

You can bet your last dollar that if Boeing went through all the trouble of re-locating it, it would be to go to a non-union environment, the National and local unions losing 30,000+ dues-paying jobs in the process.

The national group saw it. The local leadership still have their heads up their rears!
I expect there will be a change in the local leadership.

Something that really got me over the last few weeks is how many of the Unionized workers were out there giving interviews and calling Boeing management evil incarnate and greedy SOB’s and whatever!
Amazing!
If I was a manager at B and saw one of my workers on the tube spewing as much hate and vitriol as that, he’d be out of the door in a heartbeat!


12 posted on 01/05/2014 3:24:50 AM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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Something that really got me over the last few weeks is how many of the Unionized workers were out there giving interviews and calling Boeing management evil incarnate and greedy SOB’s and whatever!

My {now dead} uncle, was a union boss at a local Westinghouse plant that in it's prime employed 12,000 union workers.

He spewed the came kind of commie clap trap, and too many of the sheeple bought it and fought and struck and sabotaged the company at every turn.

Finally, the company had enough, and the plant now is empty.

Stupid bastards.

13 posted on 01/05/2014 4:37:03 AM PST by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: jimfree

Multiple stories at link indicating the Union leadership was AGAINST this contract.

https://www.google.com/search?q=union+urges+members+to+vote+down+Boeing+contract&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

The Union caved and the NYT is trying to put lipstick on the Pig


14 posted on 01/05/2014 4:57:29 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: djf
That would be a dangerous move. I've had to deal with a union organizing action and the union & members have to be treated with kid gloves.
15 posted on 01/05/2014 5:04:55 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: billyboy15

Boeing offered them EIGHT YEARS of almost GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT!

How many Americans right now would fall to their knees and thank God if they even got TWO YEARS at the starting machinists rate and benefits, amounting to something like 66K per year?

How many FReepers even?

There’d be one hell of a lot of takers!


16 posted on 01/05/2014 5:09:50 AM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: djf

You can bet your last dollar that if Boeing went through all the trouble of re-locating it, it would be to go to a non-union environment,,,,

*****

and also, Boeing would be able to build a new state-of-the-art facility, not keep trying to renovate the old factories at Everett.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 5:16:57 AM PST by maica (We are seeing an interesting mixture of malice and incompetence at healthcare.gov)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Normally true, but I think part of the fine print here was no work stoppages.

I just think you can’t bad mouth your boss in public, then at your yearly review go in there and tell your boss what a wonderful dude he is and how you love working at the joint.

It’s hypocrisy.

If these people are so unhappy let them spend 14 months making Frappa-Cappa-Mocha-Childos at some coffee joint and live on the tips.


18 posted on 01/05/2014 5:20:04 AM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: maica

Capital costs are going to be huge, no matter where. Boeing yesterday after the vote announced intentions to build a 1.2 million SF facility to manufacture the composite wing.

They apparently can’t transport the wing hundreds or thousands of miles to where the fuselage is put together.

This is a major, major deal. I’m kinda thinking Boeing realized it tossed snake eyes on the 787 (hereafter called “the Edsel of airplanes”), and is positioning the 777-X to be SOA for passenger aircraft in the future.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 5:27:40 AM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: djf

Of course you are right and this is why the Unions will be gone within 10-15 years. They have lost public support to a truly remarkable degree.


20 posted on 01/05/2014 5:50:44 AM PST by billyboy15
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