Boeing workers on strike want 40% raise

[Freedomisneverfree]

These are their current salaries:



The hourly pay for Boeing workers varies depending on their role and experience, but here are some examples:

• Production Coordinator: $19.24 per hour on average
  
  
• Metal Fabricator: $44.59 per hour on average
  
  
• Mechanic: $35.46 per hour
  
  
• Technician: $39.59 per hour
  
  
• Test Technician: $33.88 per hour
  
  
• Installer: $24.33 per hour
  
  
• Electronics Technician: $41.50 per hour
  
  
• Inspector: $43.00 per hour
  
  
• Electrician: $30.35 per hour
  
  
• Repair Technician: $37.69 per hour

 

[Mr Natural]

These are their current salaries:



The hourly pay for Boeing workers varies depending on their role and experience, but here are some examples:

• Production Coordinator: $19.24 per hour on average
• Metal Fabricator: $44.59 per hour on average
• Mechanic: $35.46 per hour
• Technician: $39.59 per hour
• Test Technician: $33.88 per hour
• Installer: $24.33 per hour
• Electronics Technician: $41.50 per hour
• Inspector: $43.00 per hour
• Electrician: $30.35 per hour
• Repair Technician: $37.69 per hour

And much does the CEO (an accountant, not an engineer mind you) make?

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

And much does the CEO (an accountant, not an engineer) make?

I'd have to go on Glassdoor to find that

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

And much does the CEO (an accountant, not an engineer mind you) make?

Okay here it is: In 2023. Newly appointed Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg stands to make $22 million next year if all performance targets are met. Aug 8, 2024

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Boeing is a failing company losing money hand over fist.

someone has been lying to you again

 

[Picaro]

I posted what they earn, nothing more.

No, you posted a abstract 'median' and 'average' and a gross generalization, meant to be misleading.

 

[Picaro]

Okay here it is: In 2023. Newly appointed Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg stands to make $22 million next year if all performance targets are met. Aug 8, 2024

I can lose them a few billion for half of what they're paying Ortberg to lose a few. lol

 

[leftwinger]

someone has been lying to you again

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That’s gross profit. Now you take off cost of operations, taxes, insurance……keep going.

They may call it COGS. Cost of good sold.

 

[Woodznutz]

No, you posted a abstract 'median' and 'average' and a gross generalization, meant to be misleading.

The alternative is to examine pay and benefits of each individual employee. I'd be up for that.

 

[Polishprince]

That’s gross profit. Now you take off cost of operations, taxes, insurance……keep going.

They may call it COGS. Cost of good sold.

Exactly. Gross profit for a store like Walmart is just the difference between the cash collected and the price paid for the merchandise. Doesn't take into account the costs of the building, the staff, taxes and a whole host of other items.

Boeing has had net losses over the past several years, but hope springs eternal that they'll get things turned around.

 

[Woodznutz]

they are skilled craftsmen and should be paid commensurate to current conditions.

" The labourer is worthy of his reward. " 1 timothy 18.19

Skilled craftsmen aren't "laborers". They are called 'artisans' in the Bible.

 

[SmokeALib]

From a political standpoint, it will be interesting to see where the candidates line up on this one.

We know Harris will be behind the union.

Where will the blob land?

You mean like Harris was behind the railroad workers when she stood behind Joe and forced the unions to except the railroads proposals?

 

[SmokeALib]

Unions protect poor workers.

They use to.

 

[SmokeALib]

Boeing was a good company to work for when engineers were running the company. But then a funny thing happened after the McDonnell Douglas merger - accountants, ie, costcutters, took over running the company. Instead of profits going to the workforce and workplace, they went to stockholders via buybacks.
Instead of designing new airplanes, they simply retrofitted old ones. This proved disastrous with the new MAX planes. The new, larger engines wouldn't fit on the old planes, so they moved the engines higher up on the wings, which changed the balance and flight characteristics of the plane.
But, hey, no retraining pilots and no redesign of a 50 year old platform saved the company millions. More money for the stockholders.
They tried to fix the design problem with software.
They didn't even tell the pilots about this. Wasn't even in the manuals.
Shady ass shit if you ask me.
It took over 300 dead passengers to bring this to light.
But, hey, the stockholders are millionaires.
What a joke of a company.
I hope the workers keep striking these assholes. Good luck to all of them.

 

[Captain Caveman]

 

[Independent thinker]

And I would love to have a rainbow unicorn to give to my daughter.

Yes, it's over four years, but come on, this is ridiculous and these kind of wage increases, are one of the reasons we have been living in the inflation-age.

Boeing workers on strike for the 1st time in 16 years after 96% vote to reject contract​

The overwhelming vote to reject a contract deal is expected to halt operations in the Seattle area – the hub of Boeing's commercial plane manufacturing – and disrupt the company's supply chain.​

Boeing workers on strike for the 1st time in 16 years after 96% vote to reject contract

Boeing workers walked off the job early Friday to begin picketing outside the company's plants in Washington after voting to strike.

www.freep.com

You know if Biden were running for re-election he would be going there and holding hands with the workers.

 

[Picaro]

Boeing's labor costs are less than 5% of the costs, and they include management salaries, marketing depts., etc. that puff up the numbers, and they still amount to less than 5%, A 40% raise is at most a 2% cost increase, and that assumes even the CEO and other managers get the 40% raise, which they won't, more like a .5% to 1% cost increase, still far less than inflation.

Right wingers hate it when working people get to keep more of their earnings.