Boeing Breaks Ground On S.C. 787 Plant

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Start striking now! Get the ball rolling.... 11/20/2009 11:28:00 AM This is a good time to hit-em where it hurts, Let the management know you mean business!
Is it non-union? 11/20/2009 11:37:00 AM I sure hope it's non-union. Too many jobs have gone overseas due to grossly inefficient & expensive union slugs! I've seen it firsthand.
Chinese commercial aircraft 11/20/2009 12:58:00 PM GE signed a deal and gave away nuclear plant design and technology to China a year or two ago. A 'license.' A week ago they signed a deal and gave away decades of aircraft instrumentation to China. Now Locomotives. China is working hard at cloning Boeing and Airbus commercial jetliners like their C919. C for China, not a company symbol but a national symbol. Its just a matter of time that we find that we helped them destroy Boeing.I bet in ten years we will see the results of our stupidity as both Boeing and Airbus see an onslaught of Chinese commercial aircraft. In my thirty years in product development, I have watched vast assembly lines and whole product lines and entore sectors fly to Asia. We are such a nation of fools. We have no more value added; just third world, like corn production and beauty salons.
Another cheap shot...... 11/20/2009 2:01:00 PM Keep piling on the unions you mouth breathing trogs, I'm sure things are a lot better in Alabama without any worker protection whatsoever. Buy American, Be American!
Alabama's just fine 11/20/2009 4:21:00 PM Ya'll must be a Yankee. Things are just fine in Alabama. But...Boeing is building in South Carolina....what's 'bama got to do with it?
Boeing coming to SC 11/20/2009 7:36:00 PM I am so glad this plant is building here. I'm getting so tired of whats left of Union workers saying that non-Union workers don't make quality products. I'm a machinist and run parts all day within a few microns on specifications. My company has trained their employees well and we are a team. A non-Union worker can get it done before a Union worker will vote to turn the machine on. So come on Boeing lets make some planes. Commented on by a Non- Union Machinist working overtime, go figure.
Re: Cheap Shot 11/23/2009 12:33:00 PM At least you identified your intent in the header! The rest of the working world aren't piling on the Unions, it is just that for the past several decades, Unions have been irrevelant, and allowed poorly educated, and often lazy to prosper far beyond the value of their abilities. As for protection??Protection from WHAT? Since 1960 There has been OSHA who enforces safety measures, and in the 1920s, Ford led the way to the 40 hour work week, which is now standard, and employers pay time and a half for anything over that...by law. And by the way, things are just fine throughout the South! Only difference is that here we actually work, because that's why it is called a "job". And we enjoy advancement on the basis of earning it! Tome for you to come to and look around. The gravy train has been running out of steam for a long time, and you and your brothers have been cranking down the brakes!
Re: cheap Shot 11/25/2009 5:50:00 AM Read up on your History without Unions there would be no OSHA or 40 Hour work week or for that matter a Middle Class, its great if you work for a Company where you don't need a Union, I wish I did.(All that Harms Labor is Treason). Wake up in the South You are the new Detroit..
Re:Read up on your history 11/25/2009 11:33:00 AM You might consider a bit of research yourself, only don't do it with Union sources. When Henry Ford introduced the five dollar day AND the five day week, there was no union, and also, he was adamantly against labor Unions! The company became union after a violent confrontation with Walter Reuther and Frankensteen among others, with Harry Bennet's thugs, trying to keep the organizers off the property. Not long after that, with Henry in failing resolve and health, Harry Bennet actually took control of the company. After a suspected large amount of cash traded hands, Bennet "negotiated" the first contract, signing on behalf of the company. Also, when OSHA first was enacted UAW was against it, as were many workers who were against change. Most of us in the South are here because we LIKE it here! Life is less stressful, the climate is milder, and giving a day's work for a day's pay is a way of life. If we are the new Detroit, I sure hope we don't become like Detroit! As for middle class...all the various manufacturing unions have done in that respect is to elevate persons that in many cases are low achievers to a magnificent wage.
Union 1/29/2010 4:06:00 PM While SOME unions take advantage of their companies -most don't! I have seen far TOO many companies walk ALL over their employees who are NOT union and they can get away with it!!! I've seen educated people get very CHEAP pay - due to no union and worked o.t. w/ little to NO pay - because no union. They will word it to make it so the workers get little to no pay for O.T....it's happening ALL over folks!! You'll work for "FREE"... I trust my union and the company I work for is doing just fine w/ it - and yes, I use to be Yankee and have lived in Florida for over 20 yrs. ONLY reason Boeing is going to S. Carolina - is to bust it's union and hire low paying employees that don't know any better -- THAT'S IT IN A NUTSHELL!! Boeing SCREWED the workers down here in Florida-when they were in the rocket business - non-manned flights, but enjoyed ALL the bonus' $$$$$ those employees afforded the upper crusts by breaking records and launching the most rockets ever and the thanks they got from Boeing? "I don't love rockets" is what Boeing said and sold the bus. end of it to Lockheed. Nice eh?! People in S.Carolina beware - unless they just don't give a rats butt, and if that's the case....well, you deserve it!

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