{"id":195100,"date":"2008-07-30T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/boeing-looks-for-new-ways-to-f-up-labor-management-relations\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T10:02:00","slug":"boeing-looks-for-new-ways-to-f-up-labor-management-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/boeing-looks-for-new-ways-to-f-up-labor-management-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Looks for New Ways to F%$@ Up Labor Management Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Boeing, the only company incompetent enough to get engineers to go out on strike and stay out,<sup>*<\/sup> is <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/reuters\/2008\/07\/29\/business\/OUKBS-UK-BOEING-UNIONS.php\">playing chicken with it&#8217;s unions again<\/a>, though this time it&#8217;s the International Association of Machinists (IAM), who are far more likely to strike than the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA).<\/p>\n<p>There may not be much that Boeing is good at, but <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">forcing its employees out on bitter strikes<\/span> is one of the few.<\/p>\n<p>With the 787 at least 14 months behind schedule, they can&#8217;t afford a strike, but they are still pushing to screw the employees on pensions and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth move guys.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The SPEEA went out for 40 days in 2000, despite the fact that it was a bunch of engineers, who generally hate unions, and the union was up to that point considered a joke.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Boeing, the only company incompetent enough to get engineers to go out on strike and stay out,* is playing chicken with it&#8217;s unions again, though this time it&#8217;s the International Association of Machinists (IAM), who are far more likely to strike than the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA). There &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}