Boeing. The largest aircraft manufacturer in the world. One of the world's most storied and well-respected companies.
They finally delivered the first Boeing 787, after two years of delays which included fines for late delivery, problems with imported components, and a public relations nightmare, as they moved the production line from WA, a right to unionize state, to SC, a right to work state.
The corporate heads at Boeing could learn a lesson here. While they decided that it was a good idea to use their brand spanking new aircraft as a political tool, to give their corporate loving politicians ammo to fire at the oppressive Obama administation.
Truth is that the Boeing 787 suffered more from corporate mis-management, than from any problem any union could've caused. In a bid to cut costs, and potentially inflate their bonuses, they decided to outsource and import several of the components, which were later found to not stand up to the strict quality standards of Boeing. That caused the first big delay. These were referred to as 'design flaws' at one point. They wouldn't dare say that part of the problem was imported body materials which weren't up to par, materials that if they would've made right here in the USA, would've probably passed muster.
The second management fiasco was this whole 'right to work' move by boeing. By moving their production line from where the unionized aircraft manufacturers were, they left the most talented group of manufacturers behind. When they arrived in SC, they found that re-training would be much harder than 'anticipated', causing yet another big delay. At this point there was only damage control, because the deadline for the first aircraft had passed, and they were absorbing 1-2 million dollars in fines per day late per aircraft. They tried to blame the unions and the Obama administration, for costing them time and money.
The truth is the unionized labor in WA would've been rolling out 10 aircraft per month a while ago. The line was ready to start building planes, but Boeing decided to go the political route, it decided that a sense of cost cutting and political tug of war with what should be it's ally, not it's enemy, was more important than getting these planes built and delivered as promised (which should be the company's #1 focus).
Now the Boeing 787, once touted as THE next generation commercial aircraft of the future, is now a case study in how an unfocused corporate board, a management system which thinks that short term cost cutting is better than long term performance, and an environment in which the bosses and the workers work against each other, not with each other, has led to a state of the art aircraft being another toxic asset on a corporate balance sheet.
That's right. Analysts expect that the Boeing 787 program, which has over 2.5 BILLION dollars in fines levied against it already, will NEVER turn a profit.....
Leave it up to the talking heads to blame the Administration and the unions.
Nothing but corporate greed can be blamed for this fiasco.
They finally delivered the first Boeing 787, after two years of delays which included fines for late delivery, problems with imported components, and a public relations nightmare, as they moved the production line from WA, a right to unionize state, to SC, a right to work state.
The corporate heads at Boeing could learn a lesson here. While they decided that it was a good idea to use their brand spanking new aircraft as a political tool, to give their corporate loving politicians ammo to fire at the oppressive Obama administation.
Truth is that the Boeing 787 suffered more from corporate mis-management, than from any problem any union could've caused. In a bid to cut costs, and potentially inflate their bonuses, they decided to outsource and import several of the components, which were later found to not stand up to the strict quality standards of Boeing. That caused the first big delay. These were referred to as 'design flaws' at one point. They wouldn't dare say that part of the problem was imported body materials which weren't up to par, materials that if they would've made right here in the USA, would've probably passed muster.
The second management fiasco was this whole 'right to work' move by boeing. By moving their production line from where the unionized aircraft manufacturers were, they left the most talented group of manufacturers behind. When they arrived in SC, they found that re-training would be much harder than 'anticipated', causing yet another big delay. At this point there was only damage control, because the deadline for the first aircraft had passed, and they were absorbing 1-2 million dollars in fines per day late per aircraft. They tried to blame the unions and the Obama administration, for costing them time and money.
The truth is the unionized labor in WA would've been rolling out 10 aircraft per month a while ago. The line was ready to start building planes, but Boeing decided to go the political route, it decided that a sense of cost cutting and political tug of war with what should be it's ally, not it's enemy, was more important than getting these planes built and delivered as promised (which should be the company's #1 focus).
Now the Boeing 787, once touted as THE next generation commercial aircraft of the future, is now a case study in how an unfocused corporate board, a management system which thinks that short term cost cutting is better than long term performance, and an environment in which the bosses and the workers work against each other, not with each other, has led to a state of the art aircraft being another toxic asset on a corporate balance sheet.
That's right. Analysts expect that the Boeing 787 program, which has over 2.5 BILLION dollars in fines levied against it already, will NEVER turn a profit.....
Leave it up to the talking heads to blame the Administration and the unions.
Nothing but corporate greed can be blamed for this fiasco.
