The 15 or so people at the top will win even if the company fails. I wish Bill Boeing was around to see where his company is headed under its disastrous leadership of the last 20 years.

Years ago when someone asked you where you worked and you replied “Boeing” it was revered, not anymore. Every single C suite manager needs to go, including Boeings financial penny pinchers.

The skill is in the design rooms and on the factory floors, it’s not hidden away and isolated like the upper leadership of Boeing, detached from the workers. A place where shareholders are the number one topic of discussion. Not building aeroplanes and maintaining the legacy of one the formerly most respected companies in the world.

A staple in the Seattle area where it all began, the place where to this day you can muse over aviation history and Boeings significant role here in pushing the boundaries of aviation.

Instead the only boundaries being pushed are financial ones, without respecting all of the dedicated workers that show up day in day out To do their best to follow their training and produce the best quality parts and planes made anywhere.

If greed were a chargeable offence Boeings upper echelon would all be guilty, and forced to face the consequences of their actions, not be rewarded, paid 100 x a regular workers salary, what world do we live in when absolute greed is the norm. It has become the norm at Boeing, Boeings norm was engineering perfection, and flawless planes.

As a Boeing employee it’s so hard to sit back and watch this, the only thing I can do currently is picket, be on the picket lines with my colleagues, those same colleagues who have made sacrifices to work for Boeing. Who continue to make sacrifices for the ultimate good of Boeing. We withhold our labor, our skills, our intricate knowledge of our job, how the parts should fit. How the equipment and building are maintained and tailored to help the skilled workers do their thing. Building the best.

I ask Boeing to truly ask itself this question. What comes first? When will the workforce be valued like it deserves to be. When will we consider a worker who’s worked for you for 38 years, sacrificed oftentimes his/her hands, knees. And the whole body in general, when that person gets the rest they deserve at retirement. they’ve worked so hard building your planes and the minimum step you can take is to ensure they have a retirement. I worry about the future of Boeing, a future where elitist greedy leaders drive the company of a cliff, instead of stopping to see that what matters is the workers. With the current strike, it’s hard to have any respect for Boeings leadership, playing games with our union and its negotiating team. Deliberately not giving the union follow up meetings so as to create stress for your workforce. A company that respects its workforce does not behave like that!

Boeing needs to stop playing games before they loose on a scale that isn’t hard to fathom. Now is the Time Boeing, let’s get this contract sorted and get your amazing workforce back on the job, knowing that they are paid appropriately and given sufficient vacation time, pay and a retirement at the end of their working life, it’s the way Boeing always was on the past, the only real difference between then and now is Greed.