Re: Angry Boeing supporters target McCain

Eeyore wrote:
"George Z. Bush" wrote:

Brother McCain, sadly for him, apparently failed to even try to do so and
now
faces the wrath of thousands of already or soon to be terminated Boeing
employees and their families and
friends.

Where are these 'soon to be terminated' employees ?

Presumably, they're still at work on the Boeing production line.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that they won't be moved to 787
production
?

I'm not trying to tell you anything that other more knowledgeable people
aren't already saying. For example, "As a result of this decision, we are
looking at the end of the road for the 767 line in the near future because
commercial demand for that plane has waned fairly rapidly." That comment
was attributed to Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington
Institute, a public policy think tank.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/353250_tanker01.html

As for 787 production, nobody really knows how successful that line is going
to be. If their order book is no bigger than it presently is, then their
production line is already staffed and manned. The possibility of 767
workers being transferred to it might well be slim or non-existent.

Let's put it this way. If you were a worker on the Boeing 767 production
line, how would you feel about your economic future if your company lost a
big contract (35-40 billion dollars or so) to a (partially) foreign owned
competitor which would be built in the opposite geographic part of the
country (Mobile, Alabama) in a factory yet to be built in an area serviced
by roads yet to be built provided by other infrastructure also yet to be
built by employees yet to be hired or trained for the specifics of that job.
On top of that, I've heard suggestions that the bidding rules were changed
after they were published to advantage Northrup-Grumman at Boeing's expense.
D'ya see anything in any of that that might make Boeing production line
employees sufficiently uneasy as to piss them off that a presidential
candidate didn't show even a slight amount of sympathy for their plight and
their very real fears for their personal futures?

I don't know how much of this I'd bet my farm on, but I do know (at least
IMHO) that it was stupid of McCain to ignore it or at least make sympathetic
noises about it. OTOH, perhaps he values the support he expects from the
administration he's willing to publicly support more than what he might
expect from a relative handful of workers out on the West Coast.

George Z.


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