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States salivating for Boeing 777X feast
Seattle Times ^ | November 19, 2013 | Brian M. Rosenthal

Posted on 11/20/2013 11:24:52 AM PST by mdittmar

A week after union Machinists at Boeing rejected a contract that would have guaranteed the 777X be built in Washington, the aerospace giant has talked to at least a half-dozen states about the future plane.

Officials in Alabama, California, Kansas, South Carolina and Utah said Tuesday their states have talked with the company about a new airplane-assembly plant, while a spokesman for Gov. Jay Inslee said Washington’s efforts have never stopped.

Georgia and Texas have also expressed interest, but officials there would not say whether they’ve actually spoken with Boeing executives.

The conversations, a mix of phone calls and in-person meetings, some initiated by Boeing and others by state economic-development offices, were described as preliminary.

Boeing spokesman Doug Alder declined to discuss specifics but reiterated that the company is exploring all options for where to build the bigger, more fuel-efficient version of the 777 widebody jet.

CEO Jim McNerney said at the Dubai Air Show this week that he expects a decision within three months — a time frame that is forcing states to move aggressively.

Officials in several states expressed confidence about their chances.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


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1 posted on 11/20/2013 11:24:52 AM PST by mdittmar
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2 posted on 11/20/2013 11:30:44 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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When approached by the state representative from California, the Boeing executive is believed to have injured himself from laughing too hard, but is expected to recover.


3 posted on 11/20/2013 11:31:23 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (War on Terror news at rantburg.com)
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I guess that union sure showed Hostess who’s boss. Wonder what those people are doing who are in that picture. Same will be for Boeing if or when they move the 777XX project out of state. The IAM can then strut around showing who’s the boss.


4 posted on 11/20/2013 11:35:18 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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Good pic


5 posted on 11/20/2013 11:35:21 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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Vacuum-brained stupid for the unions to reject that contract.

And now they have a little socialist on the City Council who tells the machinists who will be fired to "take over" the building, and build something that is not "war machines."

6 posted on 11/20/2013 11:35:47 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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You talkin’ about this?
http://mynorthwest.com/76/2398157/Buses-by-Boeing

Seattle deserves this gal. She’s not typical Socialist, she’s a Trotskyite. Check out this article;

Congratulations To Kshama Sawant: Who has just won election to the Seattle City Council.

Four-term Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin conceded to Socialist challenger Kashama Sawant late Friday afternoon, after Sawant once again increased a lead that now stands at 1,640 votes.

In an interview, Conlin said he sensed the tide that would carry the “Socialist Alternative” candidate, an instructor at Seattle Central Community Council, to an upset victory.

Seattle has had similar politicians before, for instance, Anna Louise Strong. But not recently. (Openly, anyway.)

Our local news organizations have been calling her a “socialist”, which is true, but not very specific, since socialists come in many varieties. In contrast, Wikipedia is quite specific.

Sawant is a Marxist, a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and a member of the Trotskyist political party Socialist Alternative, an affiliate of the Committee for a Workers’ International.[10][11]

Some people may need a refresher on Trotskyism.

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party of the working-class. His politics differed sharply from those of Stalinism, as he opposed the idea of Socialism in One Country. Trotsky still supported proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy. He did not believe in the unaccountable bureaucracy developed under Stalin after Lenin’s death.

In short, a Trotskyite is not just a socialist, but one of those revolutionary socialists we usually call communists. They are, they would be quick to remind us, communists who believe that Trotsky should have been in charge in the Soviet Union, instead of Stalin.

(Sawant is also, thanks to her husband’s job at Microsoft, quite well off, perhaps even rich. In her financial statement, she gives Vivek Sawant’s income as greater than $100,000, the top category in the form. The value of their checking account, somewhere between $40,000 and $99,999, also suggests that the two are not living in poverty, or even among the working class.)

It is embarrassing, but I have to admit that I am charmed to see a Trotskyite — who I thought were almost all dead — elected to anything. It is like seeing a Know Nothing, or a supporter of free silver, win. Her ideas are, of course, crazy, but then so are many of the ideas held by others in Seattle’s government.

But I am not charmed to see that she has taught economics at a Jesuit institution, Seattle University, and a community college, Seattle Central Community College. Alex Berezow is right to wonder about this paradox.

Even more troublingly, how can somebody with her beliefs be allowed to teach an economics course? This would be analogous to allowing an AIDS denier to teach a medical microbiology course, a 9/11 truther to teach a foreign policy course, or a creationist to teach an evolution course.

Or allowing someone who thinks you can live on sun beams to teach nutrition.

She wouldn’t, of course, be the first left-wing activist who was supported by a job (or jobs) at a college or university. In fact, that is quite common in our colleges and universities. A few of these activists are decent teachers as well as activists, and a very few of them even produce something scholarly. But most of them are just activists, and typically quite intolerant activists, at that.

Cross posted at Sound Politics.
(You may be slightly reassured to learn that she does not appear to be teaching currently at either Seattle University or Seattle Central Community College.)
- 9:12 AM, 16 November 2013 http://www.soundpolitics.com/


7 posted on 11/20/2013 11:43:44 AM PST by bigfootbob
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“And now they have a little socialist on the City Council who tells the machinists who will be fired to “take over” the building, and build something that is not “war machines.””

They can make Twinkies. Hahahahahahaha....sometimes I crack yield up.


8 posted on 11/20/2013 11:44:55 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
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> "I guess that union sure showed Hostess who’s boss. Wonder what those people are doing who are in that picture."

I worked in a plant that was shut down about 30 years ago. The union was asked to help provide a dollar an hour savings. They came into the meeting with management and said "We were going to demand a $2 an hour raise, but we will only ask for a $1 raise. You can keep the extra dollar." They left the room laughing. Six months later, the plant was closed down.

A few years afterward, the local newspaper did a study of the 700 workers that lost their jobs. The top level management lost very little money over the closing. Some went right out and made more than they were at the plant. The Union people lost more, equivalent to a few months salary. The middle-management people lost more. The white-collar, non-management people lost the most, pretty much a years salary. Almost everybody had gotten back to their old salary after within five years.

9 posted on 11/20/2013 11:47:32 AM PST by jim_trent
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Boeing looked at Dallas years ago and chose Chicago, they know what is in TX and what they did was take the best tax deal, at the time, regardless of all other factors.


10 posted on 11/20/2013 11:51:40 AM PST by q_an_a (the more laws the less justice)
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Gee, I never knew commercial airliners were “war machines”.


11 posted on 11/20/2013 11:53:27 AM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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And now they have a little socialist on the City Council who tells the machinists who will be fired to "take over" the building, and build something that is not "war machines."

And she expects Boeing to just sit by and let the socialist mob take over. At this point in time she is clearly the instigator in calling for illegal mob action. If this takes place I think that Boeing lawyers would fry her one piece at a time in civil court. They would first make her use all of her personal resources to defend herself then continue to take her back to court with different angles and complete break her personally, politically, and financially. It would be fun to watch her publicly broken down and that big mouth be silenced.

12 posted on 11/20/2013 11:56:49 AM PST by oldenuff2no
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"Almost everybody had gotten back to their old salary after within five years."

Just wondering how long it took for those workers who got back to their old salary to make up the difference of what they lost at a per hour rate.

13 posted on 11/20/2013 12:10:40 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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WTF would California be on ANY manufacturer’s list. And I live there


14 posted on 11/20/2013 12:14:13 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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Build it in Texas! Fort Worth has great aerospace history. ..


15 posted on 11/20/2013 12:17:05 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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Build it in Texas! Fort Worth has great aerospace history. ..


16 posted on 11/20/2013 12:17:07 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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Arizona’s ready! McCain can’t live forever!


17 posted on 11/20/2013 12:23:12 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Reminds me of the union at Easter Airlines; “Full pay till the last day!”


18 posted on 11/20/2013 12:24:47 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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Hey, Hey!
Ho,Ho!

South Carolina’s where we want to go!


19 posted on 11/20/2013 12:27:48 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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Boeing has purchased 450 acres adjacent to their exiisting site in North Charleston SC., which they are building on now. Boeing intends to start construction of the 737Max here ASAP.
They have an offer in on an additional 1150 acres Building the 777x here wouldn't take much. The area around the airport is undeveloped, so I would imagine the price is much more desirable that other sites
20 posted on 11/20/2013 12:32:32 PM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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