Posted on 11/23/2011 3:05:44 PM PST by Evil Slayer
Boeing seems “very serious” about its study on whether to shut down its Wichita plant, Sen. Jerry Moran said Tuesday.
“I think Boeing considers this a real option,” Moran said.
His comments followed Boeing’s announcement Monday that it was studying the future of its Wichita site, including whether to close the facility.
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.
Gov. Sam Brownback said he and Kansas’ congressional delegation will “fight and fight hard” to keep Boeing in Wichita.
What the state can do, however, is unclear.
There’s no contractual agreement between Boeing and the state of Kansas that binds the company to the jobs, Brownback said.
Boeing’s competitor for the tanker contract, Airbus, aligned itself with the state of Alabama and other states, saying it would put work in those states if it won. Boeing, meanwhile, aligned itself with Kansas and the state of Washington and promised jobs there, Brownback said. Boeing was awarded the contract, worth about $35 billion, earlier this year.
“It’s ... the nature of how those (military) contracts are awarded and won,” Brownback said.
Brownback and other elected officials have requested a meeting with Boeing CEO Jim McNerney.
“We’re going to remind them of their obligations that they have made in seeing these tankers are built in Kansas and in Wichita,” said Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita.
Boeing repeatedly said during the long fight over the contract that a win would mean 7,500 jobs for Kansas, including several hundred jobs at Boeing Wichita. The Congressional delegation pushed hard for Boeing on the tanker program, Brownback said. In fact, he said he doubts Boeing
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Was that before or after the NLRB starting intimidating and using commie tactics on Boeing with the S. Carolina move?
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?
bfl
Airbus builds tankers and aligned with Alabama.
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Oh yeah, I see what you mean. All those other companies companies building tankers.
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
Brownback played by the rules and found out just how ugly that can be. Politics is, and has always been, a dirty game
I was suggesting that alignment with States and deals should have nothing to do with the bid on our buying aircraft.
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.
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.
But hey, why get real when all us voters need to do is be ideological.
You don't suppose price is a factor there?
Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to turn a profit. Who knew? And why should a union know this? After all, “it’s irrelevant.” LMAO
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).
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).
Double oops!
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.
“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.
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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