[hungie]

Good. Jim McNerney absolutely shredded the culture, and eroded decades of good will. It's far past time workers for Boeing pressed for things to go back to being an engineering and manufacturing led company.

Striking is one way to get closer to that, good on them.

[M95D]

Ever heard of a stock-price led company that "went back to being an engineering and manufacturing led company"?

[extraduder_ire]

What happened with dell when they went back to being privately owned for a couple of years?

[fragmede]

Depends on how deeply you know the story of GE, which was an engineering company, became a financial services company, and now is back to engineering.

[paxys]

> and now is back to engineering

There is no company called GE anymore. Most of its engineering units were sold off to other companies which just license its brand. GE appliances, for example, are actually Haier. GE Lighting was sold to a home automation startup.

GE's biggest value creator today is its brand name, not its engineering.

[collinmcnulty]

This is not correct. There are three companies formed from the splitting up of GE that all do serious engineering. GE Aviation, GE Vernova (power), and GE Healthcare.

[harimau777]

Do you have any more information on that? I worked for GE in the past and would like to do so again; however, I'd avoided them because it seemed like they'd been run into the ground.

[triceratops]

I think GP meant went back successfully. Whether today's GE will ultimately be successful remains to be seen.

[paulvnickerson]

Maybe they should go private then, like Musk did with Twitter.

[JKCalhoun]

It may be Boeing's only chance of having a future.

Good luck, Boeing. (And I mean that.)

[michael1999]

I don't see anything about the engineering culture in the union demands. It's all about pay, benefits, etc.

I fear this will do the exact opposite: vindicate the union-busters who wanted to move out of Washington in the first place.

[michael1999]

I should be clear, I see the linkage.

The union-busters from MD are a cause of Boeing's woes, and it would be difficult to maintain a high-discipline, high-quality culture in a right-to-work plant without external oversight. The plausible deniability of production mandates with records falsification make zero-tenure employment toxic to a safety-critical program.

[tempodox]

Reclaiming control from the beancounters and misers to rein in their destructive influence? I'm not optimistic.

[hintymad]

And what's enraging is that he was boasting his so-called culture-building in his book and retried scar free