Posted on 08/24/2024 7:00:32 AM PDT by Salman
Mondays and Wednesdays are loud at the vast Boeing factory in Everett, Washington. As the Machinists’ contract campaign heats up, the workforce has been serenading management at lunch with air horns, train horns, and vuvuzelas—plus chants of “Out the Door in ’24.”
Forty miles south, in Renton, where workers construct the moneymaking 737, second shift workers have used their meal breaks to blast Bluetooth speakers at top volume with ’90s rap, death metal, ’80s pop, and opera—all simultaneously, said Jon Voss, a 13-year mechanic in the wings building. The resulting racket “really drove management and HR nuts.”
The Boeing contract expires September 12 for 31,000 members of Machinists (IAM) District Lodge 751 in Washington and 1,300 District W24 members in Gresham, Oregon. The last time a full contract was negotiated was 2008, with a 58-day strike.
A workday rally July 17 at the Seattle Mariners baseball stadium drew 25,000—including a procession of 800 motorcyclists—and 99.9 percent of members attending voted to sanction a strike, the first step towards a walkout under the Machinists constitution. They will vote again when they see a proposed contract.
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That company is a mess. I remember when they hired Nimrata. LOL
That type “hires” got them into this mess.
Even if there isn't a strike, the outright division and enmity does not bode well for Boeing or its products.
A house divided against itself can not stand.
we neEdZ MO MONEY!
Boeing, Boeing, gone!
Unfortunately, almost all Union shops have this attitude.
Most Union bosses cherish this, so they can keep their hefty money going.
Basically, they portrait themselves as saviors, without them all workers would be homeless, begging for food on the streets.
Boeing went woke—I have zero sympathy for them.
Death knell?
things just don’t “go woke.”
they get infiltrated by woke vermin.
NONE of the UNION OFFICIALS never are out a single dime.
Boeing’s Board of Directors could have resisted the woke infestation.
They chose not to do so.
Boeing’s serious problems started when they merged with McDonnell-Douglas.
Boeing builds planes that crash and spaceships that can’t land. Now labor troubles. They’ve scored the “they’re screwed” hat trick.
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Agree with the correlation and the coinciding point in time. The real culprit was Harry Stonecipher... a real asshole CEO that had been at McD only a very short time before the merger — came from Sunstrand. He did straighten out the scandals that had been at McD... but his drive for cost savings and massive outsourcing that he and Alan Mulally (former President of Ford Motor Company) conjured up really screwed Boeing up... The 787 launch was nothing short of disaster and it seems that they have not had a successful new product launch since.
Growing up I remember Boeing being an american juggernaut. How could they have screwed this up? Did they see themselves as too big to ever fail? “We can never be wrong”
Is this rock bottom for Boeing?
...the union is trying to get the company to promise to build its next plane in the Puget Sound area.
This, one highly suspects it the center of the contention.
Unions, like Dems (if there's a difference), always want to change the rules to max power and control.
I'm no fan of unions, but all the same Boeing has been unionized since WWII. So that's not primarily the issue this time.
Because they’re infested, too.
“Boeing’s serious problems started when they merged with McDonnell-Douglas.”
I’ve heard that said before but, I think it has more to do with our woke universities and the kind of people they’re graduating.
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