Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Unions are pretty much worthless now

Boeing is taking a radical step in making the Labor Unions feel pretty much worthless with their new website: Click here. With this, they can offer up new contract terms without Union Management trying to skew the facts and present it to the machinists, etc...
They can then process and think about the new terms days, instead of hours, before they vote to strike. GM, Ford, Chrysler, take hints!

I still think the entire Boeing Union is overpaid. Average wages for a MACHINIST is $91,500 a year, and they are getting a $24,000 to $28,000 pay raise. How ridiculous is that? Read the bloomberg article here.

Boeing needs to move to China/India and open up more plants there, average wages would decrease pretty quickly and airline travel could become cheaper!

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