Boeing Workers Ready for 717 Support Rally At Long Beach Factory On Thursday.Business Editors LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2001 Members of Boeing's second largest technical workers union, along with other employees here, will gather at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, at the Veterans' Memorial outside Boeing's factory here to show their employer they are not giving up on the midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually 717 jetliner. A few hundred employees, including the members of the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Professional Engineers Association (SCPEA SCPEA Southern California Professional Engineering Association SCPEA South Coast Air Quality Management District Professional Employees Association ), will gather at 11:30 a.m., Thursday (Nov. 29), outside Building 802 near the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street. The media is invited to attend. Boeing has said the 100-seat midrange 717-jetliner program is under review. The Company said the decision to end the program could come in December. Leaders of the union said Boeing plans to sacrifice the 717 and cut thousands of jobs in Southern California in order to move ahead with plans to develop a similar midrange jetliner with Russia's Sukhoi and Ilyushin aircraft companies. Boeing entered an agreement with the two Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. firms last spring. Boeing has said the potential market for this new "717" could exceed 3,000 aircraft. Boeing already operates a Design Center near Moscow. Today, about 600 technical workers work on various projects for Boeing in Moscow. While Boeing is cutting 30,000 employees in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , no layoffs have been announced for the Moscow facility. "At this critical time, we need to protect jobs in Southern California and protect jobs in this country," said Steve Dunham, president of SCPEA. "Trading away American jobs for the possibility of receiving some airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. orders sometime in the future does nothing to help American workers or the U.S. economy." "The 717 that we make in Southern California is the best 100-seat midrange jetliner ever made," said Dunham. "It would have a good future if Boeing would stay committed to it." SCPEA represents more than 4,000 engineers and other technical workers at Boeing's Long Beach and Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. factories. |
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