Thanks for reminding me Ken. Yes, Boeing wanted to get out from under the Engineers and Machinists Unions, who kept winning against Boeing in the negotiations over most anything.
S. Carolina (or wherever) offered Boeing a union-free facility and of course many tax breaks. The Everett gangs won after a walkout that delayed the 787, along with dozens of other snags that apparently are still occurring. Building the future of aircraft design is tough. On Jul 27, 2013, at 09:52 , [email protected] wrote: > I remember an issue a while back where the union/government was trying to > prevent Boeing from moving some production out of Washington state to S > Carolina. Apparently the company won. > > http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/charleston/ > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: What if Pentax did a Kickstarter? > > >> On 7/26/2013 11:48 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >>> I'd bet that the parts for a lens come from many different sources >>> that specialize in the part they are producing for such a lens, or >>> even a camera body. >> Joseph McAllister [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
