Boeing to shift research jobs to South, Midwest
Source: Seattle PI
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Boeing announced Thursday that it is shifting hundreds of jobs to Alabama, Missouri and South Carolina as part of a restructuring of its U.S. research operations over the next two years.
The Chicago-based aerospace company said the reorganization will result in fewer research jobs in Washington state and California and is being undertaken to better meet the needs of its commercial airplane, military and space and security units.
The announcement comes as those same states, and several others, are competing to assemble Boeing's 777X passenger plane a much-sought-after facility that could generate thousands of jobs.
Boeing spokesman Daryl Stephenson said the restructuring of the company's research operations has been in the works for several years and is unrelated to the new airplane or Boeing's contract negotiations with a Seattle area machinists union.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Boeing-to-shift-research-jobs-to-South-Midwest-5059307.php
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Agreed.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Well, the CEO's and upper management are not moving to SC or AL or any of those states with crappy schools and roads and countrified society. They don't want their kids growing up in That! And all the $$$$ will flow out of SC and AL to upstate NY and CT.... or in this case Chicago.... as usual.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)anti-union shenanigans here in WA, fu boeing. You have come a long, negative way, since the 60's.
no_hypocrisy
(46,230 posts)warrant46
(2,205 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)SC, Mo, and Alabama are but temporary waypoints on their way offshore. Boeing has often actually said they wish to become a "virtual manufacturer" of aircraft.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Gagged a bit when I read that. Local gossip has it that Boeing became "Chicago-based" because the new CEO's wife didn't want to move away from Chicago. You know, Chicago, the last outpost of civilization.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)I believe that, don't you?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Exploit the fuck out of them in the meantime. They're short-timers who don't give a shit about their history and community. I figure we have a couple of years before they leave completely so Washington should mine them for every nickel we can get.
Fuck 'em.
Alkene
(752 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)to be independent of location, the lifestyle of the average employee can vary widely from place to place across the country. If you're invested in life in Seattle, you're not going to find the same things in St. Louis or Atlanta. Not to diss St. Louis or Atlanta; I'm sure most people who live there would hate Upstate New York, but I wouldn't live any place else.
A two income family may well decide to stay in place. With the extinction of the pension, why would anyone have any loyalty to any particular company these days?
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Unless those employees are willing to take wage cuts.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Airbus has lots of US content in their planes as is. I'd love to see them smoke Boeing in the commercial A/C market.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)work done on the cheap. Safe bet that they'll be offering rock bottom salaries to new college grads. My husband was laid off from Boeing three years ago when they closed his division. The managers were moved to other locations. The worker bees, especially the older worker bees, got the boot. He was 59. It was downright cruel.
pnwmom
(109,000 posts)and creating "new" openings in other places.
And, officially, this has nothing to do with unions.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)they moved beyond just commercial airplanes when they bought MacDonald Douglas and Hughes Satellite systems.
Boeing Military Aircraft, for example, is headquartered in St Louis. It makes sense that they do their defense related research there.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Low wages, poor health and dental health. Yeah, they need to organize all the factories that have been moved South to evade unions.