Posted on 04/23/2020 9:11:47 AM PDT by SoCalCynic
When Boeing workers returned en masse Tuesday to the airplane factories in the Puget Sound region after a four-week shutdown, they found a changed workplace, cleaner and with a series of safety protocols in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Even as Boeing faces a drastic collapse in its business due to the near disappearance of air travel, management instructed about 27,000 factory employees to return to work this week. Yet with the coronavirus still threatening lives nationwide, the first to return came back with varying levels of unease.
“Our members have some tough decisions to make personally on whether they can remain in the workplace or not,” said Jon Holden, district 751 president of the International Association of Machinists (IAM).
In interviews Wednesday, some employees said Boeing had significantly stepped up its protections for the workforce. A mechanic on the 767 program in Everett, who had been very unhappy at the lax safety protocols in Everett before last month’s shutdown, said Wednesday that “Boeing has definitely put in an effort to make things better.”
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Why not document virus contagion at every power plant that been in operation this entire time
Good News!
A lot of car manufacturers in the South are starting up Monday.
Reading the article it shows that some employees are complaining about having to go back to work. In spite of extreme cleaning and rules, there are still griping that the company hasn’t done enough to protect them.
OPEN THE COUNTRY! Bill Bennett had a terrific op-ed on this
all they need now is customers
Because most plants were run with about five people. At least ours was.
Boeing always has the government.
They are not making many “Max’s.”
Cue the lawyers if and when someone comes down with it.
why when we have shut down of everything else is boeing allowed to go back to work?
all they need now is customers
This is going to be a problem because there will be a big retraction in the airline industry based on lack of demand, payrolls, and devastating numbers for the past two months that will have to be digested before anyone starts buying new planes again.
The company I work for has 5 factories throughout the US and we have never closed. We are an essential industry (HVAC).
The maximum unemployment benefit it Washington state is $790 add the $600 from the feds and you are getting $1390 PER WEEK to sit on your ass.
They need to be shut down permanently and smaller, more agile, and better-run companies allowed to take over the airplane business.
“The maximum unemployment benefit it Washington state is $790 add the $600 from the feds and you are getting $1390 PER WEEK to sit on your ass.”
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Wow, $790. In the People’s DemocRATic Republic of Maryland the max is only $430. That’s probably because most of the ‘RAT base in Maryland are federal/state/local government employees or their family members and THEY ARE NEVER LAID OFF.
“Cue the lawyers if and when someone comes down with it.”
Yep, and it’ll add impetus for states to determine that everyone out of work due to COVID is entitled to workman’s compensation regardless of the source of the infection (which is unprovable in any event).
Thank you for supporting what I have been posting for weeks.
But that fruit is rotting now and needs to be culled from the tree.
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