Or Boeing executives who finally appear to be winning back support of shareholders. And there's not much sympathy for Phil Condit and the rest of Boeing's upper management, either. This is the same team that nearly turned the company's commercial aircraft group into a nonprofit organization. Labor strikes are a zero sum game. Workers seldom recover lost wages.
Companies lose valuable momentum.
But a labor dispute such as this one can do long-term damage to Boeing's ability to meet the challenge posed by Airbus. In the letter, Glen asked us if an increase in the tax credit would cause global warming, increased congestion, mass starvation and species extinction. This proposed increase in child tax credit is not only Bush's idea, but a bipartisan one, and long overdue. You don't like Bush and you are unabashedly resorting to scare tactics to prevent his election. You and your kind don't have the answers, but you are more than willing to show us the problems.