Right To Work

Boeing machinists rejected a contract offer this week which could've reduced their pensions, raised their healthcare costs and eliminated job security.  Boeing had put this contract forward as a precondition to building their next big project in the Seattle area.  It was voted down by 66% of the membership.

This after the state legislature was called into a special session to give Boeing $10 billion in tax breaks if they built here. They are a very big gorilla in Washington State politics.

Local poll on this website shows 79% of respondents agreeing with the engineers.

The last big Boeing aircraft, the 787, was largely built in a right-to-work state (South Carolina) with day-labor engineers and lowest bidder subcontractors.  It's been plagued with problem after problem after problem, most of them related to unskilled labor or unskilled designers.

Was it one of the astronauts who said they were riding rockets built by the lowest bidder?

NoCoPilot wrote:

Was it one of the astronauts who said they were riding rockets built by the lowest bidder?

In search of exquisite irony...could it have been one of the Columbia astronauts?

No, it was Alan Shepard.

I thought Alan Shepard was the originator of Michael Jackson's "Moon Walk."

Maybe both?