Originally Posted by APC225
If Boeing spent less time on trying to get a factory in a non-union ("right to work") state and more time building the plane the old-fashioned way, by American unionized workers, this plane might have 3 years of flying history already.
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BUT, remember this whole 787 debacle started well before Boeing acquired and established the non-union factory in Charleston, SC. You are right though it had to do with non-American workers at all the foreign outsourced locations around the world manufacturing components with very poor Boeing oversight. This is what outsourcing gets you when you can't control your product. Hmmm, I sense that could apply to other companies. Now if I could only think of one or two?