Posted on 11/13/2017 5:27:44 PM PST by tcrlaf
Bombardier Inc. is forecasting its planned C Series assembly facility in Alabama will create as many as 2,000 jobs in the U.S.
The plant, planned for Mobile, Ala., as part of its proposed partnership with Airbus on the program, would create 400 to 500 direct jobs, 550 to 700 indirect jobs at supplier and support companies and an additional 1,000 to 1,250 new jobs created in the communities where those other new direct and indirect employees spend their money.
According to a report, Bombardier’s jobs forecast was part of a regulatory filing that also revealed the new assembly line would “contribute $300 million of foreign direct investment into the United States.”
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The combination of Tarriff's, and coming new Tax policies forces Bombardier to move C-Series production from High-tax Canada to the U.S.
In a very short time, Mobile, Al could be making more aircraft than Witchita or Seattle! And unlike Boeing, the parts for the C-Series are largely sourced IN AMERICA.
Don’t count the chickens until they are hatched. Last time around, the new Air Force tankers were supposed to be built there, until Chicago based Boeing applied some Chicago style politics to the program, and got the contract cancelled. As Boeing ran into a series of problems with their proposal, the Air Force is still without the tankers.
Watch for more politics out of Chicago.
The plant, planned for Mobile, Ala.,
This can’t be true. Senator Patty Murray said Alabamians don’t have the smarts to build stuff.
“I have stood on the line in Everett, Washington, where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes,” Murray said in a Dec. 7 interview with National Public Radio. “I would challenge anybody to tell me that they’ve stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.”
I wrote some ‘stuff’ about Patty Murray but I decided that I can’t post it to FR.
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