Boeing Job Placement Violations
Boeings Job Placement Violations
GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Professor: Todd Weber
05/25/2012
Introduction:
Boeing is an American aerospace and defense corporation founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle Washington in 1916 (The Beginings 1903-1926). Boeing has government customers in over 150 countries leading the way as a top U.S. exporter of airline support. In 1997 Boeing merged with Douglas McDononnell expanding their business units (The Boeing Logbook 1997-2011). They are among the largest global manufactures of aircrafts with their revenue, orders and deliveries. They are also the third largest defense contractor in the world. They are a major company that employs more than 170,000 people who work to build passenger planes, helicopters, war birds and missiles, satellites and spacecraft. With their corporate offices in Chicago, Boeing employs people across the United States and in 70 different countries. They are known for sending astronauts to the moon, bringing cultures together in harmony, and setting the way for today’s new technologies. They are the world’s largest aerospace company and the leader in manufacturing commercial jetliners, defense, and space and security systems. As of December 2001, Boeing was up in revenue to $68.4 Billion, a 7% increase from 2010 (Boeing, 2011). Even though Boeing is the world’s largest contributor to defense contracts in the world, they do not escape the fact that there are some employees who are not happy with the way they are taken care of. For this reason many of the employees are union based and in so enjoy some job security when it comes to pay, medical and other benefits. But because of several strikes, Boeing has been thinking about other alternatives to solve these issues.
This paper is going to discuss one problem Boeing had when they decided that they were going to move a specific production line from Seattle Washington down to South Carolina where it is not a union plant.
GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Professor: Todd Weber
05/25/2012
Introduction:
Boeing is an American aerospace and defense corporation founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle Washington in 1916 (The Beginings 1903-1926). Boeing has government customers in over 150 countries leading the way as a top U.S. exporter of airline support. In 1997 Boeing merged with Douglas McDononnell expanding their business units (The Boeing Logbook 1997-2011). They are among the largest global manufactures of aircrafts with their revenue, orders and deliveries. They are also the third largest defense contractor in the world. They are a major company that employs more than 170,000 people who work to build passenger planes, helicopters, war birds and missiles, satellites and spacecraft. With their corporate offices in Chicago, Boeing employs people across the United States and in 70 different countries. They are known for sending astronauts to the moon, bringing cultures together in harmony, and setting the way for today’s new technologies. They are the world’s largest aerospace company and the leader in manufacturing commercial jetliners, defense, and space and security systems. As of December 2001, Boeing was up in revenue to $68.4 Billion, a 7% increase from 2010 (Boeing, 2011). Even though Boeing is the world’s largest contributor to defense contracts in the world, they do not escape the fact that there are some employees who are not happy with the way they are taken care of. For this reason many of the employees are union based and in so enjoy some job security when it comes to pay, medical and other benefits. But because of several strikes, Boeing has been thinking about other alternatives to solve these issues.
This paper is going to discuss one problem Boeing had when they decided that they were going to move a specific production line from Seattle Washington down to South Carolina where it is not a union plant.
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