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Specifically, the numbers aren’t
Boeing 737 worker meetings to discuss quality improvrments
all Commercial Airplanes pro-
grams and sites over the next
few weeks. Your voice is critical.
Please continue to raise con-
cerns and share ideas through
your leadership, or using our
Speak Up portal. I look forward
to sharing another update on our However maybe the slip in
actions.”
But will this be
enough? Are the
problems wider
and deeper?
Boeing has had a difficult and at
times very strained relationship
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with its machinists for decades
and this year the current contract jokes and ridicule not
is due to expire in September
in what is shaping up to be
an extremely difficult set of
negotiations.
quality of workmanship lies
elsewhere.
The latest “Gallup State of the
Global Workplace 2023 Report”
reveals that the US worker has
the highest regional percent-
age of daily stress and highest
regional percentage of female
employees who experience high
daily stress.
good with 52% saying they are
stressed compared to the global
average of 44%. Engagement
is better with 31% of US work-
ers saying they are engaged
compared to the global 23%
while 52% are not engaged and
17% are angry compared to
global numbers of 59% and 18%
respectively.
It seems inconceivable
that the company that
gave us the 707 and
747, helped put man
into orbit and then on
the moon, built a raft
of satellites and the
rockets that put them
in orbit, built most of
the free world’s fighter
jets and large trans-
port aircraft and was
the lead integrator of
the International Space
Station can find itself
the butt of a tsunami of
just on social streams
but in mainstream
media over its seem-
ing inability to perform
the simplest of tasks
- tighten up nuts or
ensure that bolts are
in place.
The industry needs Boeing to do
better – much better – or it could
become a marginal player just
as McDonnell Douglas did in the
1980s and 90s.•
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