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Boeing Gets Green. Can still do more.
To be fair, Boeing does occasionally do some good things for the earth, community, and the environment. We only wish they would focus more energy on greening and truly supporting their communities than on strengthening the power of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Look for Boeing’s roll in the Obama admistration with the appointment of Gen. James Jones, a former Boeing board member, as Obama’s NSA advisor.
This article shows a glimpse into the potential for Boeing to do some good. Let’s give them a thumbs up – and ask for more. A lot more.
Boeing St. Louis Site Earns Environmental Certification
Boeing.com
12/4/2008
Boeing announced that its St. Louis site has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 certification, a global benchmark of an organization's commitment to understand and continuously improve its environmental performance.
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Boeing Mismanagement Causes 25% Workforce Reduction in Wichita
This is infuriating and one of many reasons why the Peace Economy Project continually calls for the diversification of Boeing facilities.
There are many guilty parties in the debacle that has been the procurement process for the refueling tanker bid and Boeing’s management was at the vanguard of these missteps. To force 800 medium-level employees, more than 25% of the Wichita staff, to pay for the errors, mismanagement, and corruption coming from senior Boeing management is simply unjust.
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Machinists ratify Boeing pact, set to resume work
By RORY MARSHALL
BusinessWeek.com
SEATTLE
11/2/08
Machinists union members have ratified a new contract with Boeing Co., ending an eight-week strike that cut the airplane maker's profits and stalled jetliner deliveries even as world demand was surging.
Workers are expected to return to Boeing's commercial airplane factories, which have been closed since the Sept. 6 walkout, starting Sunday night.
The vote Saturday by members of the union, which represents about 27,000 workers at plants in Washington state, Oregon and Kansas, was about 74 percent in favor of the proposal five days after the two sides tentatively agreed to the deal and union leaders recommended its approval.
"This contract gives the workers at Boeing an opportunity to share in the extraordinary success this company has achieved over the past several years," Mark Blondin, the union's aerospace coordinator and chief negotiator, said in a union news release.
"It also recognizes the need to act with foresight to protect the next generation of aerospace jobs. These members helped make Boeing the company it is today, and they have every right to be a part of its future," he said.
The union has said the contract protects more than 5,000 factory jobs, prevents the outsourcing of certain positions and preserves health care benefits. It also promises pay increases over four years rather than three, as outlined in earlier offers.
The union members, including electricians, painters, mechanics and other production workers, have lost an average of about $7,000 in base pay since the strike began. They had rejected earlier proposals by the company, headquartered in Chicago.
It was the union's fourth strike against Boeing in two decades and its longest since 1995. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers staged strikes against Boeing for 24 days in 2005, 69 days in 1995 and 48 days in 1989.
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Boeing, Machinists reach tentative deal
Union urges striking workers to vote yes Thursday
Monday, September 26, 2005
By JAMES WALLACE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER AEROSPACE REPORTER
After secret negotiations in Washington, D.C., that included commercial boss Alan Mulally, The Boeing Co. has reached a tentative agreement with its striking Machinists union.
The company gave in to union demands on issues that had triggered the strike more than three weeks ago and which had shut down Boeing's jetliner production in the Puget Sound area at a critical time, just as Boeing was cranking up to meet growing demand by customers for new jets.
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Big Money for Boeing, Further Degradation of the Integrity of the US Military
This represents further privatization of our military forces. As Frida Berrigan wrote for TomDispatch.com earlier this summer, we are now looking at the Military-Industrial Complex 2.0.
There are certain activities for which privatization may be justifiable, but when mega military contractors like Boeing are getting into covert operations like “intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services” and when they are operating military satellites and helping with launch support, it is clear that this private company is an active agent in waging war. And that should only be the role of a discretely led federal military.
Boeing would not be launching this new division if there wasn’t a customer ready and waiting for their services. When our government cedes control of its military to private companies, it leads to a precarious conflict of interests: business profits vs. the mission. We cannot run the risk of further blurring the line between corporate and military interests.
This announcement means big money for Boeing and the further degradation of the integrity of the US military.
PEP
Boeing IDS launches new services division
St. Louis Business Journal
9/22/08
The Boeing Company launched Monday a new division within its St. Louis-based Integrated Defense Systems business that focuses on services.
The newly established Defense and Government Services includes 4,400 employees and will be led by Greg Deiter.
Boeing estimates that the defense and government services market is worth $400 billion over the next decade.
The services include logistics command and control, satellite operations, launch support, field maintenance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services, contractor logistics support, field service representatives and fleet support.
Boeing donates $1M to MLK memorial
I hope that Boeing executives genuinely consider all the words of Dr King as they make this donation. In particular, I am thinking of his role as a labor advocate (Boeing and the Machinists’ Union are currently at odds) and his voice for peace and non-violence. What would Dr King think about a company that made over $30 Billion on implements of war last year donating money in his name?
I cannot say, but I think he might consider looking the gift-horse in the mouth.
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” Beyond Vietenam 4/4/1967
PEP thanks Boeing for their generous contribution to the memory of this great leader and we hope they embrace all of his ideals.
-PEP-
St. Louis Business Journal
08/27/08
Boeing will donate $1 million toward building a lasting memorial to Dr. King on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
James Bell, corporate president, chief financial officer and executive vice president, made the announcement at a breakfast Boeing sponsored Thursday at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Some 1,000 civil rights and faith leaders, government officials and others attended the event.
"As a result of the generous donation by Boeing, the Memorial Foundation has reached the $100 million fundraising mark and we continue to move forward with excitement as we set forth to raise the remaining $20 million needed to build the memorial," said Harry Johnson Sr., the foundation’s president and chief executive.
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