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Boeing: Strike vote will have no effect on planned layoffs
Everett Herald (Everett, WA) ^ | November 1, 2024 | Michael Henneke

Posted on 11/03/2024 5:51:08 AM PST by Salman

Thousands of layoffs will continue as planned at Boeing, no matter how union Machinists vote on the latest contract proposal aimed at ending a strike now in its eighth week.

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, including 17,000 members from the Boeing plant in Everett, will vote Monday on the offer union leadership announced Thursday.

A simple majority of yes votes would end the strike, and send Machinists back to work. A no vote would extend the strike that has cost the company billions of dollars and led to Boeing launching a $21 billion stock share sale to avoid a credit downgrade.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: boeing; unions

1 posted on 11/03/2024 5:51:08 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

Perhaps the strike could have positive effect in that Boeing’s stock would go to junk status, Musk would purchase Boeing for pennies on the dollar, fire the totally incompetent upper management, and get the company back to producing the best airliners in the world.


2 posted on 11/03/2024 5:55:05 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Salman

I’m waiting for some bigger fish to purchase Boeing. I don’t see it as a viable company on it’s own.


3 posted on 11/03/2024 5:55:47 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m thinking Boeing will be sold. Not as a company, but their billions of dollars in physical assets sold off.


4 posted on 11/03/2024 5:58:08 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

SURE—and the check is in the mail————


5 posted on 11/03/2024 6:11:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Da Coyote

Here’s hoping.


6 posted on 11/03/2024 6:13:45 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Salman

It may in the final fallout.


7 posted on 11/03/2024 6:30:25 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Salman

But they aren’t laying off the DIE scum. Just hiding them in HR.


8 posted on 11/03/2024 6:34:08 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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Their government contracts are worth a fortune. The new buyer would need to renegotiate all the DIE crap in them. Idiots don’t realize they have the government by the short and curlies not the other way around. Unless Kamala wins then Boeing will be nationalized. Like silicon valley already has been.


9 posted on 11/03/2024 6:36:03 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Da Coyote

“Perhaps the strike could have positive effect in that Boeing’s stock would go to junk status, Musk would purchase Boeing for pennies on the dollar, fire the totally incompetent upper management, and get the company back to producing the best airliners in the world.”

Wouldn’t that be something. Boeing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tesla.


10 posted on 11/03/2024 6:49:27 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I'm Pro-Choice and I choose life!)
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To: Salman

Fire them all. Close down the company. Take big bonuses. Sell the assets.


11 posted on 11/03/2024 7:20:42 AM PST by Thomas Jerome
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maybe these fools can vote to put boeing out of business like the unions voted to destroy Studebaker [and destroy every one of their jobs, to boot].


12 posted on 11/03/2024 10:35:40 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ClearCase_guy

Unless you want to see Airbus buying it, there is no bigger fish in the American Aerospace industry than Boeing.


13 posted on 11/03/2024 10:56:09 AM PST by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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