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U.S. aerospace unions stayed largely quiet on Monday as Europe's Airbus announced plans to build its first airliner assembly plant in Mobile, Alabama, free of union representation.
Some welcomed the creation of jobs on U.S. shores, but expressed wariness that non-union work would drive down wages across the board in one of the last bastions of U.S. manufacturing.
"It's positive that Airbus is actually building a facility," said Paul Shearon, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, a Washington, D.C.-based umbrella group for U.S. and Canadian engineering unions.
"But I think it's extremely unfortunate that a company that has been as successful as Airbus with a fully unionized workforce is choosing to go to a 'right-to-work' state to build that plant. It doesn't make sense."
I think the bigger story is that it will only take 1,000 salaried positions to run an aircraft factory. In the WWII era, a facility with the same level of productivity probably would have employed 15,000 or so, if not more.
If Airbus treats them bad they can form a union any time they want. Methinks they will make wages and bennies somewhere comparable to what other transplants pay. Probably between $14 to $20 an hour. Donald Trump aint calling to arrange polo time, but not starvation either.
Given a chance companies will go to place where the labor is cheaper in terms of wages and benefits.
That's just the bottom line.
silicon valley, biotech in boston, hollywood, wallstreet are all going to move en masse to mississipi tomorrow, eh?
No I agree with your statement (NYT ran an article today about banks moving jobs out of nyc to salt lake, jacksonville, etc) but that's Back office and middle office jobs.
High talent and High visibility players will refuse to move from alpha cities and therefore companies will keep their highest value and brands there.
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