113 Steve

Boeing Braces for Potentially Long Workers' Strike

This is to the article above (youaredumb). I am sorry you don't have a good paying job and I am sorry that you think people accept that they are only worth what their company pays them. I see things differently, I believe people should stand up for themselfs and get what they deserve. I am not sure you understand what that means since you are only worth what your boss pays you.The Boeing company does not talk about the billions of dollars the IAM got them in tax breaks for assembling the 787 here, they don't talk about the IAM standing up to the government for the tanker and now it is back up for rebid. I wonder why that is, maybe it could be then only want the public to hear and see what the Boeing company puts out to the public??? I am sorry your now worth more because if you were then you might be able to understand that we are not only fighting for ourselfs but for others that want the courage to stand up and say enough is enough.

Boeing Braces for Potentially Long Workers' Strike

Why is it no one remembers Enron, it was not a union that brought the company down but upper management. Corp. America has gotten so bad that it is hard to make a living. Yes, I do work at Boeing and I am proud to be in a union. I asked a question once to upper management and it went something like this.
If everyone union member agreed to take a $1.00 per hour cut and agreed to pay $100 on their medical every month, how much would you lower the cost of the airplane to better compete?
The answer was, we would not lower the cost of the plane as it would bring in more profit and we would use that money to send to our share holders. I then asked if management was willing to give us some of their bonuses and pay part of their medical, the guy lost it and started screaming and shouting and he had to leave the room. I was not allowed to talk about what they get because it was personal. Yet, is it not personal when they try to take from me or by brothers and sisters?
Boeing has never came out and stated they could not afford to pay us, it is they don't want to pay us.
No one talks about the last four years without a raise, so this would be a 11% raise over a period of 7 years since I have not had a raise in the last four years. Thats about 1.5 percent a year.
Does not any one understand that if jobs keep going overseas the u.s. will not have any good paying jobs left? They say it is cheeper to make overseas but has the price actually come down on cars that is being shipped in from over there?
Look at walmart, they buy from China and elswhere and their profits are huge, they pay people enough to get them on food stamps. The tax payer pays for their food stamps and any other benefit they may get.
This is not about unions getting a fair hand it is about keeping jobs and making a wage that people can buy a home, etc.