Originally Posted by SchmeckFlyer
The machinist union and management have finally reached an agreement, after about a month. Sorry to hear you missed the tour. And to think, Boeing used to have such civil and amicable relations with its workers, and not just the management or top engineers. Boeing used to be a "family", but now it is a "team" since the Chicagophiles came in.
It wasn't the Chicagophiles. It was the McDonnell Douglas crowd, particularly Harry Stonecipher, who brought to Boeing the same management philosophy that served the McDD employees and shareholders so well.
BTW, the widebody plant at Everett is still the biggest building in the world, by volume.