Boeing's offshoring risks U.S. jobs, defense, union expert says

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business-3/1184661707101160.xml&coll=2

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Some scarcely heard voices criticize Boeing's global manufacturing approach to the new Dreamliner as a possible nightmare for American workers.

Owen Herrnstadt, a manufacturing researcher who works with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, has said that the aircraft maker's strategy of spreading its development, engineering and manufacture of major, complex components of the 787 among companies all over the world will cost domestic aerospace jobs.

The focus of Herrnstadt's criticism is "a form of outsourcing that involve the transfer of technology and/or production to other countries in return for sales," he said in the abstract to a paper he presented this year...

Herrnstadt thinks that trading so much technology and production expertise with so many nationscould threaten not only the U.S. supremacy in the aerospace industry and its thousands of jobs but the nation's defense, too.

- Frank Bentayou

[jojo54]

1. I see what that article says, but...

my hub works at Ridley Park, Pa and they're hiring like mad crazy.

[soothsayer]

2. good to see that the IAM is still clicking