Boeing wants its workforce to pay the cost of its massive safety crisis.

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'Striking Boeing workers remained determined on the picket line over the weekend, after the company announced Friday it would lay off 10 percent of its global workforce, or 17,000 people. The move was a calculated provocation against the 33,000 workers mainly in the state of Washington who have been on strike for four weeks.

The company is taking such a hard line because it is determined to force workers to pay the cost of the crisis of the massive safety scandal, driven by corporate cost-cutting, which has led to continuous fatal and near-fatal incidents on Boeing jetliners.'

Boeing strikers denounce “fear tactics” after company announces layoff of 10 percent of global workforce

In court Friday, Boeing argued it deserved a lesser penalty for two fatal crashes because it is a “pillar of the national economy and the national defense.”

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[T. A. Gardner]

Given most of Boeing's recent problems have more to do with shitty workmanship than poor engineering, I think they have a point...

 

[Yakuda]

Given most of Boeing's recent problems have more to do with shitty workmanship than poor engineering, I think they have a point...

They should layoff the whole batch and rehire. I'd bet there are thousands of people who would've that job and at the current pay. Workers have this impression they control things.