Boeing picks South Carolina for 787 line

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Source: The State

Boeing picks South Carolina for 787 line

Boeing will start a second production line for the 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston, adjacent to the company's existing facilities, Gov. Mark Sanford and legislative leaders announced this afternoon.

Within five years that investment could total 3,800 jobs and $750 million in investment, according to incentives approved this week by the Legislature.

Read more: http://www.thestate.com/local/story/1003385.html

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Finally ---- some good news for South Carolina!!!

[bbinacan]

1. That is good news for SC. n/t

[sentelle]

7. Not so much for WA though.

[liberaltrucker]

2. Congrats South Carolina!

Very good news indeed!

:toast:

[Imajika]

3. Isn't this sort of an anti-labor move?

I thought Boeing did this to avoid dealing with the Aircraft Machinist Union in Seattle.

So ya, it is good news for South Carolina, but at the expense of unionized workers on the West Coast.

edited: spelling

[Diane R]

5. You are correct. This is bad for organized labor.

[endless october]

8. yep, they avoid a union with the move, as usual.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704317704574501823800786000.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_business

a lot of people have decided unions are "evil" somehow or another.

let's see how they like an America with neutered unions.

anti-union? enjoy your low pay / shitty benefits. it's coming, if it hasn't already arrived where you live.

[TygrBright]

4. Of course, they have to get the first one actually running yet... n/t

[Swede Atlanta]

6. Boeing sees cheap labor....................

This is a cheap labor trick............ Washington State has served Boeing well but now they are turning against the workforce, union represented, that have made Boeing great.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. I can't wait to see how Boeing fucks this one up,

given their long history of supply chain problems going back in the mid-90's, they have never ramped production of anything without falling flat on their face - and that is without the comedy of errors that is the disastrous 787 program.