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"Some teams at Boeing's North Charleston plant are producing their parts for the 787 Dreamliner faster than the overall pace of the program, a top company executive reported this week.
Speaking to the Goldman Sachs Global Industrials Conference on Thursday, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh said he is "very encouraged" by the South Carolina mid- and aft-body operations, which are performing above the Everett, Wash., assembly line's production rate of 2.5 airplanes per month.
"Those two operations are performing very, very well," Albaugh said. "In fact, many of the work cells that we have there are performing at about 3.5 airplanes a month, and we've also demonstrated in one or two areas that we can sustain the 10 airplanes a month rate that we'll need when we go to peak.""
For now. Look the bottom line is the only reason companies like Boeing haven't shipped their entire manufacutring overseas to some third world country is because of the tool set and technical skilled labor force required to be able to do that efficiently. I'd give Boeing another 10-15 years before the only thing on US soil is their call center. You can lambast unions all you want. Heck I would agree they have become corrupted and inefficient just like government. But it's naive and downright ignorant for you to believe that given the opportunity a company like Boeing really gives two craps about the American worker and wouldn't jump at the chance to move overseas and take advantage of third world labor. These companies be them Boeing or whoever have no loyalty to anyone but their investors. But hey maybe if we all just simply invested in a company like Boeing we wouldn't have to worry about actually working right?
Boeing is a joke just like most American companies. The only reason it has survived this long is because it receives massive amounts of government subsidy and government contracts thanks to massive trillions we spend starting wars all over the world. Boeing has never had to endure a "business cycle" in its entire history. And it still can barely survive the competition from AirBus.
Boeing is a joke just like most American companies. The only reason it has survived this long is because it receives massive amounts of government subsidy and government contracts
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And it still can barely survive the competition from AirBus.
For now. Look the bottom line is the only reason companies like Boeing haven't shipped their entire manufacutring overseas to some third world country is because of the tool set and technical skilled labor force required to be able to do that efficiently. I'd give Boeing another 10-15 years before the only thing on US soil is their call center. You can lambast unions all you want. Heck I would agree they have become corrupted and inefficient just like government. But it's naive and downright ignorant for you to believe that given the opportunity a company like Boeing really gives two craps about the American worker and wouldn't jump at the chance to move overseas and take advantage of third world labor. These companies be them Boeing or whoever have no loyalty to anyone but their investors. But hey maybe if we all just simply invested in a company like Boeing we wouldn't have to worry about actually working right?
Boeing is a joke just like most American companies. The only reason it has survived this long is because it receives massive amounts of government subsidy and government contracts thanks to massive trillions we spend starting wars all over the world. Boeing has never had to endure a "business cycle" in its entire history. And it still can barely survive the competition from AirBus.
"These companies be them Boeing or whoever have no loyalty to anyone but their investors."
YES!
You are correct!
So why give them more reasons to leave?
How about we lower that marginal corporate tax rate to something like what Europe charges, get some of the red tape out of the way and then see if we can't get them to pay a high school drop-out six figures to drive a hi-lo?
"Some teams at Boeing's North Charleston plant are producing their parts for the 787 Dreamliner faster than the overall pace of the program, a top company executive reported this week.
Speaking to the Goldman Sachs Global Industrials Conference on Thursday, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh said he is "very encouraged" by the South Carolina mid- and aft-body operations, which are performing above the Everett, Wash., assembly line's production rate of 2.5 airplanes per month.
"Those two operations are performing very, very well," Albaugh said. "In fact, many of the work cells that we have there are performing at about 3.5 airplanes a month, and we've also demonstrated in one or two areas that we can sustain the 10 airplanes a month rate that we'll need when we go to peak.""
What's your ***** point? How is this political or a controversy? You might as well have pasted a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. not smart enough to come up with an opinion?
Looking forward to the first North Chuck Dreamliner falling apart over the Atlantic in the next 10 years.
Is that necessary? Why can't you accept that these may be better workers? Criticize something you know about. Oh I forgot you believe in the myth that union workers are better. LOL. They are probably doing their job while the union workers are laying around taking all the breaks they can muster in.
Maybe so but they are already having problems with it..........
First glitch for ANA's Dreamliner at Japan airport - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/glitch-boeing-dreamliner-japan-airport-114638216.html - broken link)
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