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I wouldn't put it past Boeing management to try to move more production to South Carolina. In fact they put the 787 there thinking that the 787 would be the fut
by Zigurd 3y ago
I wouldn't put it past Boeing management to try to move more production to South Carolina. In fact they put the 787 there thinking that the 787 would be the future of Boeing. It isn't, and it can't be, because of the problems in developing and building the 787. So their move to a anti-union state ended up being a dead end.
In the 787 project they pushed outsourcing of design to their suppliers so they could reduce dependence on their own engineers. That was a disaster. They spun out Spirit Aerosystems to fragment their unionized manufacturing workers. The same Jack Welch influence via Harry Stonecipher sets the management tone even today. It's the wrong culture.
They need to move headquarters and production of their next plane back to the Pacific Northwest, and they need to develop the next plane not in the way that they developed the 787 which was which was designed to be a thumb in the eye of the union and their engineers. It's a cultural problem. Look at the word cultural throughout the FAA report. The culture that Boeing had doesn't work, and they need to change it root and branch.