Boeing & Labor

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/boeing-seattle-pension-scam-112013

*On Monday night, she spoke to supporters of Boeing Machinists, six days
after they rejected a contract guaranteeing jobs in Everett building the
new 777X airliner for eight years, in exchange for new workers giving up
their guaranteed company pensions. Now Boeing is threatening to take those
jobs to other states. "That will be nothing short of economic terrorism
because it's going to devastate the state's economy," she said. Sawant is
calling for machinists to literally take-possession of the Everett
airplane-building factory, if Boeing moves out. She calls that "democratic
ownership." "The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not
agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are
here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don't need the
executives. The executives don't do the work, the machinists do," she said.*
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