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No contract binds Boeing to local jobs (Wichita plant shutdown?)
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| 11/23/11
| Molly McMillin
Posted on 11/23/2011 3:05:44 PM PST by Evil Slayer
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Hawker Beechraft laying off big time and, now, Boeing possibly leaving Wichita. Not good.
To: Evil Slayer
Elected officials from Kansas and Wichita, and union leaders reacted Tuesday by requesting meetings with Boeing officials to remind them of the promises they made to put jobs in Kansas should the company win an Air Force contract for aerial refueling tankers.Was that before or after the NLRB starting intimidating and using commie tactics on Boeing with the S. Carolina move.
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:08:10 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: Evil Slayer
Elected officials from Kansas and Wichita, and union leaders reacted Tuesday by requesting meetings with Boeing officials to remind them of the promises they made to put jobs in Kansas should the company win an Air Force contract for aerial refueling tankers.Was that before or after the NLRB starting intimidating and using commie tactics on Boeing with the S. Carolina move?
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:08:32 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: Evil Slayer
Boeing lined up with Kansas and Wichita,
Airbus lined up with Alabama.
Am I the only one who se’s Congressional corruption here?
In other words the states with the strongest congressional delegations get the contract, not the company with the best design or the best price.
Am I the only one that see’s this as BS?
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:16:11 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: Evil Slayer
To: Venturer
Boeing builds tankers and aligned with Kansas.
Airbus builds tankers and aligned with Alabama.
Then there's ...
...
umm ... there's ...
Oh yeah, I see what you mean. All those other companies companies building tankers.
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:28:59 PM PST
by
delacoert
The only saving grace is that Kansas is s “right to work” state.
Though that may be a reason for the union to collude with the government to close the plant.
Mark
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:32:44 PM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Evil Slayer
Its ... the nature of how those (military) contracts are awarded and won, Brownback said. Brownback played by the rules and found out just how ugly that can be. Politics is, and has always been, a dirty game
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:34:39 PM PST
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: delacoert
I do not understand your post, but you probably did not understand mine either.
I was suggesting that alignment with States and deals should have nothing to do with the bid on our buying aircraft.
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:36:48 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: Evil Slayer
Maybe the “price” for staying in Wichita, would be for FUBO’s NLRB to pack up and get out of their nonsense with respect to the South Carolina Dreamliner plant.
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posted on
11/23/2011 3:57:12 PM PST
by
vette6387
(Enough Already!)
To: vette6387
Maybe the price for staying in Wichita, would be for FUBOs NLRB to pack up and get out of their nonsense with respect to the South Carolina Dreamliner plant. A: why would Kansas have any control over that, and B: why should Obama care? The Air Force gets the tankers no matter where they're built.
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:01:54 PM PST
by
SoJoCo
To: Venturer
Gee, I don't know, a convincing bid for a $35 billion contract involving high tech manufacturing employing 10,000 skilled workers would probably include a plan that sorta sketches where all that might happen ... and maybe a company putting together a bid with a plan might talk to the people in states were it might happen ... and maybe taxes and incentives might get discussed ... and maybe politics might get involved ... and maybe congressional votes may play a role.
But hey, why get real when all us voters need to do is be ideological.
To: Evil Slayer
He also said there is no demand for the tanker outside the United States. You don't suppose price is a factor there?
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:03:18 PM PST
by
SoJoCo
To: Evil Slayer
Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to turn a profit. Who knew? And why should a union know this? After all, “it’s irrelevant.” LMAO
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:13:24 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
To: delacoert
I guess things may have changed, but back in the day we had to say when, where and who we’d have running a program when we submitted a proposal. We also evaluated based on such things as facilities, workforce, management, etc. (I worked both sides of the fence).
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:36:54 PM PST
by
pepperdog
(Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
To: delacoert
I guess things may have changed, but back in the day we had to say when, where and who we’d have running a program when we submitted a proposal. We also evaluated based on such things as facilities, workforce, management, etc. (I worked both sides of the fence,at different times of course).
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:37:40 PM PST
by
pepperdog
(Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
To: pepperdog
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:39:30 PM PST
by
pepperdog
(Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
To: SoJoCo; delacoert
"Boeing has already placed work in San Antonio thats traditionally been done in Wichita, a union official said. And it has moved work from California to a site in Oklahoma City."Just a hunch, but I'd bet those "new" sites are the former Kelly AFB and the (still) Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center.
Just a hunch.
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posted on
11/23/2011 4:51:05 PM PST
by
norton
To: Evil Slayer
“Hawker Beechraft laying off big time and, now, Boeing possibly leaving Wichita. Not good. “
Boeing leaves Wichita and with the impending cuts the military, Boeing might not see another contract.
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posted on
11/23/2011 5:26:55 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(To fix government, we need a rocket scientist. Oh, wait we have one!)
To: pepperdog
Yup. Always has worked that way.
I've been hearing from people in on meetings with commerce dept types that Boeing has been dropping hints that they are leaving Kansas for months now.
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