007, London (11/21/2009 11:31:33 PM)

"Chicago-based Boeing announced the South Carolina location Oct. 28 after failing to reach a no-strike deal with Seattle-area workers."


Well it's beats China.

DaveMoore1, North Charleston (11/24/2009 1:11:54 PM)

The ground breaking and future expansion of this 500,000 sqft+ facility plus additional campus and infrastructure construction is a mega driver here in Charleston. We're certainly looking forward to some of Tulsa's non-union aircraft production workers looking to relocate to South Carolina and making it their new home. In fact, as this grows there will is a good opportunity for us in Charleston to begin looking at transfering flight augmentation control surfaces from older unionized plants around the country and centralizing them in the new Charleston facility.

TK1, (11/24/2009 2:33:11 PM)

So what are you saying Dave? Sounds like a threat to take the work out of Tulsa's Spirit AeroSystems facility.

tfromtulsa, Tulsa (11/24/2009 9:47:50 PM)

DaveMoore1 - Why is someone as liberal as yourself against the "working man" who bands together with his union brothers? I thought you liberals were pro-union all the way.

How do you plan to keep the union from coming in and infecting that plant?

emotional_sting, tulsa - (11/25/2009 3:37:40 AM)

keep dreaming dave.

redbeard, Stillwater (11/25/2009 4:25:43 PM)

At least they didn't build the plant in Mexico.

DaveMoore1, North Charleston (11/26/2009 4:56:43 AM)

REALITY CHECK: 3 billion $$ spent on Charleston & 1 major union de-certified:
Chicago based Boeing unwilling to support bloated unionized workforces' with poor production realization, age & attendance problems, poor workmanship issues, and sub-standard quality mgmnt. systems in their 787 supply chain. Especiallywhen they're stand alone operations.

Thunder196, Tulsa (11/26/2009 8:53:28 PM)

August 31, 2009 Will Boeing move to Beijing?
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"Boeing (BA) CEO Jim McNerney is eager to move the company to China. Whether moving Boeing to China means shifting its headquarters from Chicago to Beijing is up in the air. But Boeing already has $600 million in supplier partnerships with China -- such as a deal with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation to build an assembly for the 787's vertical fin. And Stan Sorscher, who spent 20 years at Boeing before taking a post at the Society of Professional Engineers in Aerospace (SPEEA) in 2000, told me that engineers he spoke with believe that McNerney is hooked on the idea of shifting more of Boeing's aircraft development to China."