Boeing Machinists: Welcome to McNerneyville
Published 12:02 pm Saturday, October 11, 2008
Leaders for the Boeing Co. and the Machinists are expected to meet this weekend to try to end the labor strike, now in its 36th day.
Meanwhile, union members on the picket lines are poking fun at Boeing executives. At the strike gate outside the Boeing office towers in Everett, the Machinists have put up a handwritten sign: “Welcome to McNerneyville!”
The union is naming the gate after Boeing’s chief executive, Jim McNerney, much like homeless advocates recently named their pink tent city Nickelsville after Seattle mayor Greg Nickels.
The Machinists also named a couple other gates “Kight Acres” after Boeing lead negotiator Doug Kight. And the gate down by the morgue here in Everett bears the name “Carson Heights” after Scott Carson, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
I’ll have photos for you later in the day.
