Boeing workers increasingly angry, worried as coronavirus infections rise inside the factories
Source: Seattle Times
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One employee on the 777 assembly line described how an ambulance arrived earlier this week and medical responders wearing the now-routine protective gear of hospital smocks, masks and goggles took away a sick worker. He said the people who worked nearby were left in position contradicting Boeings own guidelines that call for anyone suspected to have been exposed to be sent home and quarantined.
He said a janitorial crew came around and wiped down the area around the aircraft where the sick employee had worked, including the mobile crawler that moves the partially built plane along in the moving assembly line.
But they didnt touch the inside of the plane where everyone is working, he said. Its a perfect petri dish for the virus to spread...
Another employee who works on assembly of the new 777X noted that workers commute to the Everett plant from all over the region from Puyallup to the south, Arlington to the north, Gold Bar to the east and Whidbey Island to the west and so the exposures Boeing is sending people out with could shoot this thing far and wide.
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/worry-over-coronavirus-grows-among-boeing-factory-workforce/
Unconscionable.
And the entire region will pay the price.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)Before big layoffs in 1970's. Recalled when things picked up. Later a shop steward.
This is heartbreaking.
They must shut down to safeguard workers and WA residents. But that really could be deathknell.
He fears bankruptcy with defined benefits severely cut -- up to insured level, but that doesn't cover what he earned for years of labor.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)will only get worse.
PerceptionManagement
(462 posts)i care about boeing employees as much as i do about coal miners
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)In case you decide to self-delete, let me repeat your post for others' edification
That's both ignorant and coldhearted.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Both for your attitude to Boeing workers and coal miners.
These are people making a living -- and doing a job that has been vital to our economy.
As far as coal mining. The country should be doing a hell of a lot more to transition coal miners to clean economy jobs. It is totally doable.
As our economy evolves, we CANNOT keep saying FU to people in industries that no longer serve us.
We've failed workers in the past. I'd like to think we are capable of doing FAR better in the years to come.