Well 500 hundred more jobs at the top lost to Seattle? None were Union
jobs - is Seattle being punished by what and whom? Remember, Albright
and that UN Secretary who wears the $1,200 suits - were afraid to go to
Seattle....showplace of Amerucan culture = Ninjh and all were out that
day....
If they chop heads at top, not long before Union jobs go chop.....now
Unions are now controlled by CFR and in bed with CFR all but Hoffa's
Teamsters presumably sold out at top......think they did not know this
would happen? Big secret? Maybe 40 million Masons can keep a secret?
Chamber of Commerce did not know? Look at all the titles below here
before you get to story - they did not know?
So he who troubles his own house will inherit the wind and that is what
it is all about.......and I wonder if the earthquake and electrical
costs had anything to do with this......you can be sure they won't move
to California.
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March 22, 2001
Boeing, Jolting Seattle, Will Move Headquarters
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK with LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN
Larry Davis for The New York Times Rebecca Cranz works in company
support at Boeing corporate headquarters in Seattle, which is moving out
of the region after eight decades.
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EATTLE, March 21 — After decades as a mainstay of the Seattle economy
and a virtual emblem of the Pacific Northwest, the Boeing Company
stunned its hometown today with an abrupt announcement that it would
move its corporate headquarters out of the region.
The company said it was evaluating the Chicago, Denver and Dallas areas
as possible sites for a new base. The company's chairman and chief
executive, Philip M. Condit, said he envisioned a "leaner corporate
center" that would give Boeing greater "flexibility to move capital and
talent to the opportunities that maximize shareholder value."
Boeing said it had no plans to move its giant commercial aircraft unit,
which manufactures ubiquitous passenger jets like the Boeing 737, 747
and 767, out of the Seattle area. And thus it is possible, as the
company insisted today, that the impact on the Seattle economy will be
modest, since about 500 jobs are scheduled to be moved to the new
headquarters.
Nonetheless, the announcement by Mr. Condit in Washington, D.C., was a
sharp blow to Seattle's psyche and prestige, as stunning, say, as
General Motors pulling out of Detroit or Coca- Cola abandoning Atlanta.
While the 500 headquarters jobs that would be moved were primarily
nonunion, many people here expressed fears that it was a precursor to a
larger scaling back by Boeing. The company provides jobs for about
80,000 people in the Puget Sound region and is by far the area's largest
private employer.
Seattle's mayor, Paul Schell, said he was "totally blindsided."
The state's governor, Gary Locke, describing himself as "surprised and
deeply sorry," said loss of the headquarters "leaves a void in our
economic and cultural life."
Both pleaded with Boeing to reconsider.
With the region recovering from a literal jolt last month, Dick Conway,
a local economist, took a stab at gallows humor, saying, "Well, it has
made us forget the earthquake all of a sudden."
A local radio station, KIRO-AM, linking Boeing's possible relocation to
Dallas with the move of the baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez from the
Seattle Mariners to the Texas Rangers, played the country song, "All My
Ex's Live in Texas."
But the dominant emotions were shock and anger. Union leaders were
furious at both the news itself and the five minutes' advance notice
that Boeing gave them and the area's elected officials before the
announcement.
"This decision is a blow to our entire community," said Mark Blondin,
president of the local chapter of the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing about 25,000 Boeing
workers. "Bill Boeing must be turning over in his grave to learn his
company is being ripped from its roots and moved cross country."
Mr. Blondin was referring to William Boeing, who bought a shipyard on
the Duwamish River in 1910 and later turned it into an airplane factory.
He founded the company in 1916 and, taking advantage of the region's
once-cheap and abundant hydroelectric power, turned it into the world's
pre-eminent manufacturer of planes. Boeing planes helped the Allies win
World War II and, in peacetime, helped define jet passenger travel.
In recent years, however, the company has seen its once-dominant share
of the commercial airplane market challenged, especially in its global
market competition with Airbus Industrie, the European consortium.
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