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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoeing will outsource key Dreamliner components to the UAE
So much for American jobs... major sections of the Dreamliner (787) will be built by near slave labor from the sub-continent in the UAE.
The announcement, which dominated yesterday's Global Aerospace Summit in Abu Dhabi, makes Mubadala the Arab world's first direct supplier of composites to the US aircraft maker. Mubadala Aerospace is a division of Mubadala Development, a strategic investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi Government.
"Boeing and Mubadala Aerospace announce a 10-year direct contract for Strata Manufacturing, Mubadala Aerospace's advanced composite aerostructures facility in Al Ain, to produce commercial composite aerostructures for the 777 and 787 Dreamliner," the companies said.. http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/aviation/mubadala-in-1bn-deal-as-supplier-to-boeing
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)"a strategic investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi Government."
Bribes and kickbacks are illegal, but these types of manufacturing deals as an incentive for orders are not uncommon
and are apparently perfectly legal.
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)better off.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)One Day After Securing A Huge Deal With China, Boeing Lays Off 1000 American Workers
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-01-20/markets/30013620_1_american-workers-boeing-layoffs#ixzz1sPFlrbk5
pampango
(24,692 posts)Stung by dwindling domestic demand and efforts to slow production, Boeing said it plans to cut 900 more workers from its local C-17 workforce by late 2012.
"The C-17 program is an important economic asset for the State, the region, and the City. While Boeing's announcement today is difficult and disconcerting, it is not entirely unexpected, as the Federal government has decreased orders for this workhorse aircraft.
India and Kuwait have placed orders for a combined 11 C-17 s, and Boeing is reportedly talking with other nations that include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman and South Africa.
If approved as expected in coming months, the deal with India's Air Force should keep Long Beach's C-17 production line humming through 2013 - only with a reduced workforce.
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_17141501
It's not like the layoff you point out was of employees building the type of plane that China ordered (unless their military is ordering our C-17's now). When Boeing's sales of C-17's declines, they apparently can't employ as many people at the factory that produces C-17's. I'm not sure that is China's or Boeing fault. One would hope that the sale of planes to China and many other countries will employ many of these workers at Long Beach in other Boeing factories. I expect that C-17 sales are not going to increase any time soon (unless Mitt wins?) these employees best bet is in other Boeing factories since they have been hiring.
From what I can tell, a little less than half of Boeing's sales are exports. Taking out orders from our military orders (which will probably continue to decline - again, unless perhaps Mitt wins), well over half of their business is exports.
Apparently their workforce has increased since January 2011 from 161,740 to 172,186 last month. Of those American employment has gone from 133,121 to 139,615 - an increase of about 5,500 employees in the last 14 months. I don't know when delivery of the planes to China referenced in your OP begins, so I don't know if these employment gains are partially due to that or to other exports and domestic sales.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Middle Eastern airlines are almost in position to completely dominate the industry and re-map the globe in a decade or so at the current rate...They've got complete cooperation with their governments, a near-bottomless pit of money, minimal labor costs and taxes and big, new airports with plenty of expansion space, if needed...
And they won't think twice about turning around and ordering a bunch of Airbuses if Boeing wants to get cute...
msongs
(67,441 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Boeing has previously publicly stated they want to be come a "virtual" aircraft manufacturer. How much longer before the only Boeing employees in the US are in their corporate HQ in Chicagoland? I think their "right to work" plant in SC is but a waypoint to that goal.