Boeing has just announced their big P.R. event for the rollout of the 787, which (just a coincidence, of course) is going to take place on 7-8-07 to celebrate the culmination of the outsourcing of the vast majority of 787 production to other countries and companies.

Surprisingly, they will celebrate on that day with representatives of the second and third world countries and areas of this nation that really manufacture this new "Boeing" jet, who will no doubt hold back snickers when they see the Boeing logo on the 787 as it rolls out. I look forward to seeing that kid from "Deliverance" from North Carolina where much of the 787 is built by suppliers for Boeing playing the Banjo during the ceremony. It will be interesting to see what he looks like after all of these years after he became famous through that film.

I have never been to the South, so my knowledge of that place is strongly influenced by such films. I know Boeing management must visit vendors there who actually build the 787, as news just surfaced that Boeing's unhappiness caused the firing of a supplier executive there that was on the job for a brief time. I don't suppose those visiting Boeing executives go rafting down the rivers there much in their free time bow hunting, but you never know, as they may not have seen the movie that would make any heterosexual male cringe at the thought. I can think of some corrupt Boeing managers that may be deserving of such an apparently life changing (if you survive it) rafting adventures, but they may not be the ones going down to check on their Southern Folk vendors.

I guess that's enough analogies and sarcasm for today. Anyway, Boeing is renting Qwest field, the home stadium of the Superbowl XL Champion Seahawks (that is, if the refs hadn't acted like they were on the Steeler's secret payroll) so that Boeing retirees and current workers that work on Boeing programs where Boeing actually manufactures the jets they sell and a significant other can sit and sob and have their faces rubbed in the Astro-turf while watching Boeing's outsourcing of their and their progeny's futures off to the lowest non-union bidder.

Of course, many of those current and former Boeing workers may get caught up in all the spectacle and forget they are watching an event meant to make it seem like Boeing builds this jet with local and loyal labor as it has historically done for the most part over the years, and may be made to feel some sort of pride in this jet built by anyone but Boeing, and just "snapped together" and having the Boeing logo disingenuosly slapped on it before all the foreign (to Boeing) built parts of the plane exit the Boeing factory in formation in order to lend a some little legitimacy to the Boeing logo on the jet.

Why did Boeing retain only 35% of the airframe manufacture at the time of the announcement of airframe Make-Buy decisions by Boeing or the Seattle Times (whichever one first disclosed this info), the same percentage as the next airframe supplier, Japan, and why didn't they reatain 34% or less and give a correspondingly higher share to Japan? It should be obvious. It didn't just magically end up at those numbers where Boeing was listed as the largest maker of the airframe even though they di the same amount of work as Japan. Obviously they made sure Boeing didn't have any more or less of the airframe than the next largest supplier just for P.R. purposes. If Boeing hadn't let possible public outcry of it building less of the airliner than other suppliers, I believe the 35% Boeing share would have been much, much less.

But, we forget something that Boeing wanted us to forget--that 35% figure is bogus. Whether it was accurate at the time is open to its own conjecture as, as this site has shown, Boeing and the truth part company frequently. But what is not disputable is something Boeing has never acknowledged--that due to the sale of thw Wichita plant and other factors, that 35% Boeing announced back then is now much, much less. Boeing hasn't announced revised and up-to-date figures since the bogus 35% claim, so we'll have to speculate on what Boeing's share of 787 airframe production now is. I think a 10% "guesstimate" would be plausible, but it could also be 5%. Are you still thinking Boeing builds most of (or the same amount as the largest supplier on the program) the 787? Right, I didn't think so.

So what will be people be celebrating on 7-8-07 as the Japanese dancers cavort around with their paper dragons celebrating the rollout of what is really an airplane built mostly by them and therefore deserves not the "Boeing" logo, but the "Made in Japan" logo? They will be the largely unwilling participants in a celebration by Boeing executives of the death of the company as an airpane manufacturer, as well as unwittingly celebrating with executives one of the attainment of Boeing's long sought goals--the death of unions at Boeing.

So, I'd advise any current or former Boeing employee who goes to this event to not be played by Boeing this P.R. and marketing event. There is no reason for anyone at Boeing who were not one of the few hundred actual workers who "snapped together" the outsourced components of it to feel any pride or celebrate. If there is any celebration, it should be in remembrance of the dead Boeing of the past that actually built airplanes, whose coffin is in fact the 787 that will cemoniously rollout of a Boeing factory door on 7-8-07. It is not a Boeing jet, and any "Boeing workers" in Engineering who designed parts of this airplane were not really Boeing employees. They were just Boeing supplied "temps" who actually worked for the suppliers performing design work so they could also their airplane. Less of these "Boeing" temp Engineers will be needed on future "Boeing" airplane development projects as the suppliers have been taught how to do that work themselves by this program, so they won't have to use Boeing's Engineer temp service as much, by far.

And if you are at that event and want to celebrate the Boeing built components of the 787 rather than all of the other parts of the plane that weren't built by Boeing, just stare at the vertical fin at the back of the plane while you cheer, ignoring the shiny leading edge of it and the rudder at the back of it, which were built elsewhere. The rest of the plane you can ignore, as Boeing didn't build any major components of any other section of the plane.

You can bet, however small the part of this program is that you can feel Boeing pride in, that the Boeing executives that are behind this pyramid scam-like business model will be celebrating, unbridled by any conscience, celebrating what they did to exterminate U.S. aerospace workers by the business plan of the 787. After all, it is a program they designed to benefit themselves and by chance other large stockholders of the company like them at the expense of anyone below their golden spoon born station in life.

Just to make the 787 seem like a Boeing produced plane, Boeing will have Frank Schrontz, CEO of Boeing when Boeing actually manufactured the vast majority of each airplane it sold and rightly sported the Boeing logo, make an appearance at the event to attach Boeing nostalgia to a plane that isn't built by boeing, for the most part, literally.

Bob Watt will also be there, fittingly. I think he was the guy tasked with damage control locally for all of Boeing's anti Boeing worker outsourcing decisions on this program so Boeing employees wouldn't riot or quit building the legacy airplanes Boeing still needs to produce to finance the 787 and provide pay and stock options for executives, which proves the true reason for this event.

Bob Watt can thank me, however, for making his job much easier. If not for me this event would be taking place in North Carolina, and Bob would have a huge job to do of quelling the bad feelings of Boeing workers here so production could go on until those employee's jobs were ultimately outsourced when the next new A/P program came along. I doubt he would have succeeded at such a huge task. But I his job a breeze from what he expected it would be. As, per Boeing's belief, I am the only reason the 787 is rolling out in Everett instead of North Carolina, he has me to thank (my main site explains this accomplishment of mine and how Boeing credits me ("blames" is actually the correct term) for the 787 being "snapped together" here with union labor, rather than in non-union, Banjo and family loving North Carolina.

It's too bad they don't come to terms with their anger towards me for being (per them) the reason they couldn't site 787 final assembly as planned. Then they could at least thank me at the ceremony for being instrumental in Boeing deciding to stay in Washington. A good cheer from a crowd in Qwest stadium for my saving their jobs and airliner production in this state may do my ego (or what's left of it) good. It's too bad that this will likely be the only "harm" against Boeing I supposedly inflicted that they will demonstrate in court when they have me prosecuted. Even if they prove I did this, I don't think any local jury will fault me for it, even if they can demonstrate the lower cost of non-union Banjo playing workers in North Carolina would add a few tenths of a percent to their already ungodly profits. But then there is the all important (to Boeing) P.R. that holds up the Boeing house of cards. Even though they told me in private that I was the reason for the 787 being sited in Washington, why would they want to confirm that in a public courtroom? It certainly wouldn't reflect well on them, crying in court they were stopped from "outsourcing" even final assembly of the 787, in additon to every other thing than the galley sink that they had already outsourced at the time.

Hopefully current and former Boeing employees and the public will see this charade for what it really is. If they do, they certainly won't be celebrating.