In reference to the July 14 letters from Ben Rosander (Boeing Vote: Employees should stop complaining”) and Ryan Hasson (Boeing Vote: Be grateful you have a job”): Boeing is using the Sept. 11 attacks as a smokescreen for the layoffs they already had planned. The machinists are, and should be, fighting to protect well-paid union jobs. It is common knowledge that when an employer like Boeing moves jobs to non-union contractors, such actions drag down wages and working conditions for all workers, unionized or not.
I am not a machinist at Boeing, but I am a union member. I support the machinists in their struggle for decent wages and health benefits and pensions and defending their jobs from attacks by a company that only seeks to improve its managers’ stock portfolios.
If they have to go on strike to achieve this, I say: more power to them, whatever it takes for as long as it takes, and an injury to one is an injury to all.
Lynnwood
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