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2024-11-15 Economy

Boeing cutting 17,000 jobs to ‘adjust its workforce' after labor union strike

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Posted by Frank G 2024-11-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11153 views ] Top

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Once again union leadership demands cost the rank and file jobs. Remember International Harvestor?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-11-15 06:00|| 2024-11-15 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 NN2N1,

They don't care. My father turned off the lights at a shipyard where he'd worked for 19 years because the union was demanding a four hour work week and a 2 year contract. The Navy and Coast Guard were willing to commit years of work and construction if they would approve a 4 year contract, but the union president had delusions of Godhood.

They closed the doors in the spring of 83, and the union's first response was to convince the excreable Howard Metzenbaum to introduce a bill forcing the yard to reopen under the union's terms.

When that didn't work, the union convinced itself that it was all a trick, and they kept meeting every week for nearly twenty more years before they gave up.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-11-15 08:54|| 2024-11-15 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Howard Metzenbaum. Now there's a name from the past. What circle of hell do you suppose he's kvetching communism from now?

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-15 10:41|| 2024-11-15 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank,

I'm thinking they invented a couple new circles just for him.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-11-15 16:07|| 2024-11-15 16:07|| Front Page Top

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