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Old 21st Nov 2021, 11:33
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Among people who have strongly criticized Boeing (especially on this forum, and not only here) it probably isn't controversial to say that the problems, plural, at the company run very deep, and that these problems didn't materialize just all of a sudden.... and so breaking the situation down and addressing problems is likely going to be a long process.

And that the problems presented in the situation at Boeing also require responses, if not solutions actually, at FAA and from Congress. It isn't either/or.

It could be very informative to hear what knowledgeable people think about identifying one of probably several root causes of the 787 Dreamliner difficulties at present. -- Specifically, in prior threads some posters have observed that Boeing shifted production to S. Carolina precisely for the reason of getting away from a unionized workforce. That union-organized workforce had turned out 787 airplanes without these production problems, had it not? At the same time, isn't the workforce in S. Carolina something like a distant second to the Seattle-area workers? If this much is valid, then.....

Maybe it would take more than the proverbial "act of Congress" but pack it in, move it back. Move all the 787 production back to the Seattle area. If any politicians from that southern state don't like that idea, tell each one they can move with it - but each will have to start by learning how to use a slide rule, then work their way up, just like "Wimpy" would have insisted, back when.
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