Striking Is in the Air at Boeing
labornotes.org
Mondays and Wednesdays are loud at the vast Boeing factory in Everett, Washington. As the Machinists’ contract campaign heats up, the workforce has been serenading management at lunch with air horns, train horns, and vuvuzelas—plus chants of “Out the Door in ’24.” Forty miles south, in Renton, where workers construct the moneymaking 737, second shift workers have used their meal breaks to blast Bluetooth speakers at top volume with ’90s rap, death metal, ’80s pop, and opera—all simultaneously, said Jon Voss, a 13-year mechanic in the wings building.
  • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    103·
    3 months ago

    Monthly reminder that Boeing still has astronauts stranded on the ISS after what was supposed to be a ~1 week mission.

    • general_kitten@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      111·
      3 months ago

      If they really were like a (nice well functioning) family a union would not affect their operations in any way so why would they care

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I always felt weird people larping for a corporation like that.

      Agree with this statement. Simping for corporations is so sad. Corporations don’t care about you as a person, why should we simp for them? There is no reason.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    59·
    3 months ago

    I’m very glad the UAW strike brought the concept of labour power back into the national conversation for both USA and Canada. The reasons for work disruptions and affordability stagnating is blamed on “lazy workers” less often now than before.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    Are we out-of-touch?

    No, it’s all the students, recruiters, and job-seekers that are wrong.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    Probably explains why there’s two astronauts stuck on a space station, and they have to resort to murdering whistleblowers…

      • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        How many employees do you think an employer should be allowed to murder before you would consider it a reason not to apply for a job there?

              • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Also lets not forget that work contracts, just like trial Disney+ streaming terms of service, can include Mandatory Arbitrage clauses in case of dispute, so people will be signing away for life their right to not be murdered to get even just some temp work.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    The nickel-and-diming of the workers is particularly galling, Haala said, because for Boeing, labor accounts for only 3 to 5 percent of the cost of an airplane.

    From my rough searches, these planes cost roughly $250-400 million each.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I’d have to figure on airplane parts, 25% of the cost could be on QC alone.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          What is the expensive part you imagine about QC that isn’t labor? I mean sure, you need the occasional destructive test and some fuel and hangar rent but mainly it is people doing the quality control checks.

  • catch22@programming.devEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Wow great article and Elon said its because of DEI policies and HBCUs. “Don’t look at all the money I have from being a greedy asshole, it’s because of (insert marginalized class or people here)”.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I knew a design engineer that came from Canada and… Well it’s what he told me, he was one of the top in his field in Canada. He made art in his spare time and it was top quality original shit. Anyone from the Seattle art scene knew him.

    He’d talk about how downhill Boeing was becoming, 10 years ago.

  • arin@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    They don’t even want to increase salary to hire professionals. Begging for unpaid wages

  • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Gosh. Replace management with a bunch of useless fuckwits, pay below minimum wage, murder hundreds of customers (including one of my friend’s Dad), and nobody wants to work there? Who’d have ever guessed?