An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

The 737’s are made in Washington in Union facility

 

Boeing will just build more missiles bombs and drones that we pay for to send to Ukraine

 

I worked for an air cargo company, when I worked there we contracted out the conversion of 747’s from passenger to cargo, after a delays and poor workmanship we started doing them in house

 

And I find it mind boggling that a guy who constantly complains about the idiocy of his corporate management and how they are ruining a company is so against anyone standing up to management. But here we are.

I'm not pro-union, but I am pro "call a horse a horse". Workers have not shared in the rising profits while executive compensation has increased far beyond any reasonable level. People complaining about union leadership pay levels but ignoring how much the company pays their 'trade associations' isn't logical. Nor is deriding any kind of worker collective action while ignoring corporate collectivism. I also recognize that without unions we'd all be living in company towns.

 

Quality is on the management. They're the ones who hushed it up, and likely has whistleblowers killed.

 

The fall off is 2020. I'm not sure I buy your argument about rising profits.


Workers are an expense to a company, just as any other expense. The market will dictate the compensation package that a worker receives. The workers are not entitiled to a share of rising profits, but if they have invested in their company they will benefit from the profits.

I have no horse in this race. We pay our few employees the very most that we can. We do this because our business is such that personnel is the most important component to our success. Our core group has been with us since 2008 when I started in business, and they make as much as I do in wages. I will turn over our assets to them when I retire and request a nominal monthly payment in trade for them. Any blue sky value in our business has been earned by them as much as me, but I am the one taking the risk. They all could go to work tomorrow for a number of competing company's and be at the top of the skill set and the highest in demand; I know this.

Where can these Boeing employees go to work tomorrow and come close to what they are earning today, without having to relocate? Nowhere is the answer, otherwise Boeing would be offering more.

From my perspective, when a company like SpaceX is going to rescue two people stuck in space that are there on behalf of Boeing, it reflects poorly on the entire Boeing operation from the top of management to the janitor. Asking for a raise when every current public impression of a company sucks doesn't make sense.