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Titanium
- Joined
- May 4, 2010
- Location
- Cambridge, MA
Ahh, Wichita, the (erstwhile) epicenter of aircraft manufacturing and, ahem, unions.
Boeing is closing out its entire Wichita presence, 2 million square feet of under-utilized, over-costly floor space and dividing up those operations to other plants, like its non-union Oklahoma engineering offices (I didn't know there were union engineers, but I guess in Wichita anything is possible).
The stated reason for the closing was that the gigantic Wichita plant was "uncompetitive", ie, read that as "had a rat's nest of fat-cat union contracts and pension plans".
The real problem with these union monkeys is that you can't fire them, so the lazy eggs just accumulate until you have a bunch of people wandering around in 2 million square feet of floor space on 6-hour "lunch breaks".
I once had this Verizon cable guy come to my house to do some wiring and he told me didn't actually work for Verizon. In fact, he didn't contract to Verizon either. He worked under the table for the REAL cable guy who was a union worker. The union guy didn't actually do the work. So, I asked the guy, why don't you go work for Verizon. He said, I can't, you have to be in the union to get a job there. So basically he was the slave of this IBEW guy who just skimmed the profit between what Verizon was paying him and the cash wage he was paying the gump. Apparently the only actual work the IBEW guy did, according to the cable guy, is that he was a bartender at nights. I wonder if that pays as good as milking a union contract?
Boeing is closing out its entire Wichita presence, 2 million square feet of under-utilized, over-costly floor space and dividing up those operations to other plants, like its non-union Oklahoma engineering offices (I didn't know there were union engineers, but I guess in Wichita anything is possible).
The stated reason for the closing was that the gigantic Wichita plant was "uncompetitive", ie, read that as "had a rat's nest of fat-cat union contracts and pension plans".
The real problem with these union monkeys is that you can't fire them, so the lazy eggs just accumulate until you have a bunch of people wandering around in 2 million square feet of floor space on 6-hour "lunch breaks".
I once had this Verizon cable guy come to my house to do some wiring and he told me didn't actually work for Verizon. In fact, he didn't contract to Verizon either. He worked under the table for the REAL cable guy who was a union worker. The union guy didn't actually do the work. So, I asked the guy, why don't you go work for Verizon. He said, I can't, you have to be in the union to get a job there. So basically he was the slave of this IBEW guy who just skimmed the profit between what Verizon was paying him and the cash wage he was paying the gump. Apparently the only actual work the IBEW guy did, according to the cable guy, is that he was a bartender at nights. I wonder if that pays as good as milking a union contract?