Aviation workers rally to protest outsourcing

the wichita Eagle ^ | June 16, 2010 | MOLLY MCMILLIN

[Dadofmany]

BY MOLLY MCMILLIN The Wichita Eagle Photos « 1 of 1» . Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle | Buy this photo The Machinists union held rally on June 16, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Select at 549 S. Rock Road to protest plans by Wichita aircraft manufacturers to outsource jobs.

Machinists rally

Click here to see the video in full screen or to e-mail to a friend. Wichita aviation jobs are under attack more than ever, a top Machinists leader told workers attending a union rally Wednesday afternoon.

Bombardier, Cessna Aircraft and Hawker Beechcraft all are outsourcing work to Mexico and elsewhere.

"This is the birthplace of general aviation," Machinists aerospace coordinator Ron Eldridge told those gathered in the hot sun for a rally at the Holiday Inn Select hotel near Kellogg and Rock Road.

Union members from across Wichita — many of them carrying signs reading "Jobs Worth Fighting For" — attended the rally to protest the practice of outsourcing and to get an update on negotiations between the Machinists and Spirit AeroSystems.

Members vote June 25 at Century II on whether to accept the company's offer. Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.

The current contract expires that day. Machinists represent about 6,000 Spirit hourly workers.

Talk at the rally first concerned Mexico.

In Wichita, Bombardier is outsourcing its Learjet 85 to Mexico, Cessna is sending work from its Prospect plant to Mexico, and Hawker Beechcraft has closed its Salina plant and notified the union it is stepping up efforts to outsource more work, said Machinists District 70 president Steve Rooney.

"Where's our mayor? Where's our governor?" Rooney shouted from the podium. "They've got to step up and recognize this is a serious issue."

Rooney urged workers to contact their congressional delegation.

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[hedgetrimmer]

Now the labor unions are labor cartels.

Now you make out some ridiculous challenge that has nothing to do with anything I’ve said and want me to defend something that only YOU assert? LOL

Global corporations are communist collectives with globalist elite bosses who pay people slave labor wages, and labor unions are communist collectives who take people’s wages.

In the free traitor world of your creation, there is no place for individual rights, citizen sovereignty or free enterprise.

It’s all pitting one collective against another for the ultimate Hegelian synthesis. Which might remind you of China, who has told Obama to model the US after their system and owns enough of our debt to make him do it.

Thanks free traitors! You’ve destroyed America.

[Oceander]

Hardly. Perhaps if unions hadn't been so intent on buying political votes and using political pressure to obtain advantages they could not have bargained for fair and square they might have some redeeming qualities; however, they don't. They have been foursquare in the vanguard of the corrupt and the venal sheparding crony capitalism into all aspects of political life, and deserve nothing more than being forced to bear the inevitable consequences of their own corrupt behaviour. If unions and union members don't like outsourcing, they have only themselves to blame.

[hedgetrimmer]

Free traitors have made sure to blur all the sovereign boundaries. Your ridiculous comment is based on long passed history when stuff was actually made here.

NAFTA guaranteed that even a so called US company like Ford gets its parts from Mexico and a majority of its parts come from elsewhere.

What computer is built here from completely domestic components? NOT ONE thanks to free traitors.

You can’t buy American for manufactured products, because the free traitors have seen that you can’t.

[hedgetrimmer]

No it isn’t. It was asserted in the 19th century and then demonstrated in England.

[moovova]

Thank you for justifying greed...

That makes it seem...OK.

Not.