Boeing Workers Ready to Hold ''Save Our Jobs'' Rally On Thursday.Business Editors LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 A rally by Boeing engineers aimed at stopping The Boeing Company from shutting down the 717 plant here and starting to produce a similar jetliner in Moscow, Russia will be held here Thursday, rain or shine. The rally will take place at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 6, at the Veterans' Memorial, outside Building 802 near the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street in Long Beach. The media is again invited to attend. Organized by 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 Engineering Association (SCPEA SCPEA Southern California Professional Engineering Association SCPEA South Coast Air Quality Management District Professional Employees Association ), the event is part of a union campaign to show Boeing employees here are not giving up on building 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. In addition to the rally, union members started a mailing campaign to seek support from city, state, Congressional leaders and President George W. Bush. "This rally kicks off a long-term campaign designed to keep pressure on the Company until they recognize the 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. plants represent the future of Boeing," said Steve Dunham, president of SCPEA. Boeing plans to make a decision any day on the future of the 717. The 100-seat 717 is the last commercial 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. originally designed and built by the former McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It merged with Boeing in 1997 to form The Boeing Company. Company. Union leaders said Boeing is maneuvering to end the 717 program and cut thousands of jobs in Southern California. The move would free the Company to develop a similar midrange jetliner with Russia's Sukhoi and Ilyushin aircraft companies and outsource other work now done in Southern California. Boeing entered an agreement with the two Russian firms last spring. Boeing said this new "717" has a world market of more than 3,000 aircraft. Boeing already operates a Design Center near Moscow and employs 650 technical workers there. 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. "Trading away American jobs for the possibility of receiving some airplane orders sometime in the future does nothing to help American workers or the U.S. economy," said Dunham. SCPEA represents 4,000 engineers and technical workers at Boeing's Long Beach and Huntington Beach factories. |
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