The plant on the East Coast was because Boeing was busting the machinist union that runs the Seattle plants. It’s also why Boeing has been cutting their key en

The plant on the East Coast was because Boeing was busting the machinist union that runs the Seattle plants. It’s also why Boeing has been cutting their key engineering staff in Seattle — they also unionized. In fact, rumor has it that the entire reason MCAS/737MAX debacle happened was outsourcing and contracting shenanigans to break the engineering union. It turns out moving senior management away from the rest of the company and getting in an ugly fight with your talent before petulantly building a non-union plant elsewhere leads to low quality products and out of touch executives. Who could have known? Oh yeah, my friend’s uncle who flatly said when his generation of engineers retired, Boeing would lose the ability to make planes. And everyone else.