Boeing employees in Seattle organize group 'sickout Fridays' in protest over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Journalists have posted videos of people picketing in front of Boeing's Washington state factories .

Now there are reports of a new 'Sickout Fridays' in an attempt to buck the mandate .

They're also known as #FreedomFlu Sickouts, as explained by one person who contacted a journalist about the protest .

They claim Boeing has acted in bad faith with regards to the vaccine mandate, which requires employees to be vaccinated by December 8.

Boeing employees are reportedly planning a weekly 'sickout Fridays' protest against a new COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The aerospace giant said on Tuesday it will require its 125,000 US employees to be vaccinated by December 8 under an executive order issued by President Joe Biden for federal contractors.

'Compliance with these requirements is a condition of employment,' states a Boeing internal presentation from Tuesday viewed by reporters. 'Employees who are unable to meet these requirements ... may be released from the company.'

Employees can request exemptions 'due to a disability or sincerely held religious belief.' Any employee granted such an exemption will have to 'undergo frequent testing for COVID-19' and be ready to 'present a negative test result upon request.'

The policy will apply to roughly 125,000 U.S.-based employees company-wide, with about 57,000 of those in Washington state.

But the move has sparked outrage from some staffers, with protesters who claimed to work for Boeing seen in front of the manufacturer's factory in Everett, Washington.

‘Boeing employees provide all kinds of services that keep planes in the air.”

Once the aircraft leave the plants, they are now the property of the airlines. Everything past that point is the responsibility of the airlines whether commercial or passenger unless something is found wrong and they are brought in to discuss the problem(s) for correction like the problems with the 737 a few years ago. So they provide nothing but talk after the aircraft is delivered unless an unusual situation surfaces. By not providing additional aircraft to the consumers is a long term problem like I mentioned.

Airlines purchase in fleet sizes when they get enough hours on the current fleet. For the brand new 737 max there are secured orders for 100 aircraft from Southwest Airlines, 25 aircraft from United Airlines, and 23 aircraft from Alaska Airlines. All new bells and whistles for the plane and to be delivered starting early 2022. They plan to finish test flights in 2021 and have 10 completed by late June.

In the commercial side secured order for four 747 freighter aircraft from Atlas Air in 1021 but production of the aircraft will end mid 2022 so no more are being sold.

There are captured order for eight 777 freighters from DHL in 2020 that are still to be delivered with the construction of the new 777 with a pile of improvements.

Boeing’s revenue comes from 3 sources:

40% defense and space
35% commercial aircraft
25% global services (These include engineering, maintenance and modifications, upgrades and conversions, spare parts, pilot and maintenance training systems and services, all for the owners to work with)

So, except for mailing out the spare parts so the owners’ maintenance people can install them from Boeing specs, the sale is the end of the trail.

The process of developing a new aircraft like the 787 from the time the program began to the time of the first revenue flight was about 8 years and 9 months. The factory in Everett has the capacity to produce almost 9 aircraft a month of all the large aircraft they build. They are just in the business of making things for the aircraft and assembling them or sending out parts for the owners to assemble.

I own stock in Boeing and I live a couple of miles from the southern wing assembly plant south of Tacoma.

“You’re an ignorant idiot if you think that.”

You can call me what you want. But I’m giving you facts that you can find if you do a little research. Before you call people names and question their intelligence, do a little of that research. Then you can carry on a conversation using facts.

wy69

You really proved you haven’t a clue how aviation works at all. That post was full of your assumptions and silly factoids but no facts of how aviation works. Without Boeing, planes are grounded. You spouted some crap you found on the Internet but you have no clue what Global Services is, means, or does. You have no idea that without their systems that support aviation the airlines are grounded. All 700 worldwide airlines rely on Boeing systems every day to keep in the air.

What a retard. In the days of information at our fingertips we have no knowledge or wisdom. Your post demonstrates that.

“All 700 worldwide airlines rely on Boeing systems every day to keep in the air.”

Try putting it in prospective. In past years entire sections of Boeing have gone out on strike for extended times.

1977: Machinists stage a 44-day work stoppage over pension and benefits for retired members.
1989: Concerned about overtime issues, Machinists strike for 48 days.
1995: Machinists strike for 69 days over pension and job security.
2005: Machinists go on strike for 28 days.
2008: Machinists strike for 57 days over job security, health care and retired member benefits.

And there are other unit strikes than these.

But to my knowledge, and that of the airlines, they are still flying whether Boeing is a phone call away or not, which they would be. We are not talking about someone from Boeing going to the sight of every problem with an aircraft until it is justified like one hitting the ground. Then the NTSB requires it along with contractual considerations.

“What a retard. In the days of information at our fingertips we have no knowledge or wisdom. Your post demonstrates that.”

Two things here:

first this “retard” makes a lot of money from the stock I own.

Second: Does that mean I can call you a retard because you have no idea other than what you read on the internet as to what actually happens concerning Boeing’s commitments?

Unless you are authorized to get into their legal contractual commitments, you are just guessing and trying to prove no point at all because you don’t know what they are or what their contingency plans are? To help you out a little, Boeing has representation in almost 70 countries around the world. They are positioned to provide aftermarket support for mixed fleets worldwide. Boeing Global Services, one of their divisions especially for this, delivers service solutions for commercial, defense and space customers, regardless of the equipment’s original manufacturer with engineering, digital analytics, supply chain and training support spanning across both the government and commercial service offerings. So they don’t have a mechanic at every site. They’ll tell them what will fix it, but on very few circumstances are Boeing mechanics turning the wrenches. So they don’t have a person at every location, just within reach of a telephone and fax.

And like I’ve told people in the past, it is worthless to try to carry on a conversation with a person that has no knowledge to cover their end of the topic other than what they are told and name calling. So long

wy69

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