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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Sat Aug 24, 2013, 04:30 PM Aug 2013

Boeing’s Wage-Slashing Move to SC Backfires as Company Can’t Meet 787 Production Demand

When Boeing left Washington for South Carolina in order to suppress the wages of its workers, it also left behind the quality work that had been provided by a highly skilled, union workforce. Now, that union-busting is backfiring as productivity has dropped immensely and Boeing is unable to meet their 787 Dreamliner production goals.

Via to the Puget Sound Business Journal:

Boeing’s South Carolina facility is running behind projections and won’t make its goal of producing three 787 Dreamliners a month by the end of 2013. In fact, the Everett plant will have to make up the difference in order for the company to reach its overall goal of 10 jetliners a month by year’s end.

As recently as July 24, when Boeing announced second-quarter earnings, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney insisted the company is on track to hit 10 Dreamliners monthly by the end of this year.
But how Boeing accomplishes that has become more problematic. Company executives have started saying that Boeing’s North Charleston, S.C., plant is somewhat behind its goal of contributing three 787s monthly by the end of 2013.

The cost savings associated with moving to South Carolina, where workers are paid nearly half of what workers in the Everett, WA plant make, are now for naught. The Everett plant will be counted on to make up the difference.

For Boeing, the news is only getting worse as one of their largest global competitors, Airbus, is looking to move to Washington state to build their new engineering center. Airbus Americas Chairman Allan McArtor explained the move:

We are attracted to Washington state for the same reason we were attracted to Wichita. That’s where the talent is,” he said. “If you want to have access to the talent that developed over the last 100 years of aviation, Washington is very fertile ground.”

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Boeing’s Wage-Slashing Move to SC Backfires as Company Can’t Meet 787 Production Demand (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2013 OP

The State of Washington trains and prepares their citizens to work towards a career in the Thinkingabout Aug 2013 #1

Next you'll be telling me that Costco doesn't overpay their workers. MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #2

You'd think they would have learned from Nokia DFW Aug 2013 #3

Once again pointing out that wishing for something doesn't make it so. mbperrin Aug 2013 #4

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Thinkingabout

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1. The State of Washington trains and prepares their citizens to work towards a career in the

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Sat Aug 24, 2013, 04:39 PM

Aug 2013

Industry. One of the benefits Boeing has gotten by leaving their industry in the state but does not get in SC, grass was not greener.

MannyGoldstein

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2. Next you'll be telling me that Costco doesn't overpay their workers.

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Sat Aug 24, 2013, 05:06 PM

Aug 2013

You Liberals are so predictable.

Regards,

Third-Way Manny

DFW

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3. You'd think they would have learned from Nokia

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Sat Aug 24, 2013, 07:23 PM

Aug 2013

A few years ago, Nokia closed down their cell phone plant in Bochum, Germany, because the costs got too high. Thousands of workers were suddenly thrown onto the unemployment rolls. Nokia moved their manufacturing facility to one they had built in Romania, where wages were less than half what they had to pay their German workers. They overlooked that they had no skilled workforce to pull from in Romania. The quality of their cell phones went downhill fast, and over a third of the ones out of the Romanian plant were defective. They closed the Romanian plant within three years, though they never came back to Germany.

mbperrin

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4. Once again pointing out that wishing for something doesn't make it so.

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Sat Aug 24, 2013, 07:28 PM

Aug 2013

Or as my old granny used to say, "Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which fills up first."

Can't believe those SC workers with NO background and low wages couldn't run rings around highly trained and experienced personnel!

Whod'a thunk? Who will get the bonus for having the idea to move to SC?

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