Maybe Boeing management underestimated the resolve of the machinists; however, the machinists' union should not undersetimate the resolve of Boeing. Both will end up loosing and AirBus will be the winner!

Remember, use your common sense.

AFC

FLOCK Boeing!!!! After 15.5 years with them and being the only MBU to produce a profit(35% is what we were told) in '02 even under the Ron Woodard '92 prices for the 737, Boeing sold our plant and layed off lots o people that didn't get hired by the new company. People at the Spokane Wa, plant were given a big line of BS by the Management of the plant at the time saying there was only 1 buyer and that was it, LIES!!!!!!. So, go union workers and take all you can while you can because all of you are being fed a line of BS ten times the size we were fed in Spokane. Remember there is life after Boeing if that is the case for you, if not take all you can, they are fuc ing you daily and taking you for granted, reap the benefits with them don't let them take more or keep more than they should. Driven by greedy share holders that don't understand that without the workers they wouldn't have any dividends to share among themselves Management is making bad decisions. GO IAM 751!!!!!!!! Keep the faith all you Union Workers. Good luck from a former IAM 751 member and Boeing Employee.

Yeah, Tim Lowry, give them the very bad advice that was also given to GM employees. Its called, "just so I get mine". Look what has happen to the US auto unions. Their unions have killed GM, Ford and Chrysler. Well, thanks to people like you, we won't even have an auto industry...and the airliner manufacturing will be right behind it. Don't you peolpe EVER get it? The unions are just self-serving..and damn the U.S. economy.

unions are industry killers

People keep blaming the fate of the American automakers on unions. Unions are a thorn in the side of corporate America.

It's not the unions that dictate engineering to design things cheaper essentially leading to cutting corners, increasing the bottom line.

Is the money saved by cheaper and cheaper labor reflected proportionately in the price of any product?

There is always going to be a source of cheaper and cheaper even cheaper labor in a global market. That's why it's being pushed.

-after companies continue to reap the rewards of cheaper and cheaper labor, who will buy the products when 90 percent of the population barely affords sustenance?

some one union is all wayes to blam .big fat cats like crysler took millen money run taking.do not be fooled by them sand your ground

All organizations have good and bad sides.
If it weren't for unions do you think shareholder and corporations would give workers anything! Even no union people benefit as the companies are forced to keep some pay equity between the two workforces.
I think the anger and blame should be layed at the door of the shareholders and CEO's and politicians who worry most about profit at any cost and be re-elected at any cost when the cost is the good of the country. With out unions and the middle class there would only be the used and abused and the rich and richer.