Posted on 03/23/2020 12:07:45 PM PDT by aimhigh
Boeing Co will halt production at its Washington state factory for two weeks due to risks from coronavirus.
The company announced on Monday that the temporary operations shutdown at its twin-aisle jetliner factory in Seattle would begin from March 25 and last 14 days. The shut down will include a deep clean of its buildings and equipment.
Boeing, which employs some 70,000 people in Seattle's Puget Sound area, has more than dozen confirmed coronavirus cases among employees. One worker has died from the coronavirus, according to a friend's Facebook tribute.
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They’ll all be out of jobs, maybe for good, but at least they won’t have the virus. Instead, they can get ready to fulfill the commissars next five year plan.
This is not good for Washington State and the businesses that have services for 70,000 employees to eat, drink, transportation and so forth.
Boeing has its hands full with the 737 MAX screwup and the drop in its airline customers’ revenues.
I suppose the customer’s dropping order is corona-virus related.
Or (hate to say it, but Boeing has screwed up, too) maybe layoffs put them directly on the government bail tab rather than Boeing’s, making the amount they have to ask for as a rescue smaller.
Come to think of it, that might actually be overall more efficient, because running non-working staff special benefits through corporate accounting and overhead has to induce frictional losses.
Healthy Hobo’s?
This would have happened without the virus.
Sales of the 737 MAX are at zero.
But the virus is a handy scapegoat.
Boeing stock is up 10% on this heartening news.
I have been working virtually for almost 3 weeks now from boeing. I am glad they are letting machinists stay home.
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