Boeing Touts Outsourcing For Suppliers To Mexico

[eridani]

http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2012/10/boeing-touts-outsourcing-for-suppliers-to-mexico?et_cid=2917809&et_rid=54679148&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.manufacturing.net%2fnews%2f2012%2f10%2fboeing-touts-outsourcing-for-suppliers-to-mexico

Boeing is encouraging its suppliers to attend a workshop next month to learn how to outsource business to Mexico.

The Seattle Times ( http://tinyurl.com/8g9p46h ) reports that Patrick McKenna, director of Supply Chain Strategy and Supplier Management at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has urged suppliers to attend a Nov. 15 workshop in Chicago to learn how to do business in Mexico.

"Several of our suppliers have successfully set up factories in Mexico because of the numerous advantages that Mexico offers to aerospace suppliers," McKenna wrote in a letter dated Oct. 17. "Boeing will be sending several people to this event, and we wanted to inform our supply base of this opportunity."

The event's organizers will waive the $200 registration fees for Boeing suppliers, he said.

[Whovian]

1. Well, I'm certainly not going to buy any Boeing aircraft anymore.

I wonder if our government feels the same way.

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. Hmmmmm, wonder if this McKenna

is any relation to the McKenna who is running for governor of Washington (Republican). If so, my suspicious mind envisions that in a McKenna win for the governorship, Washington would be making sweetheart deals for Boeing and others to move plants to Mexico, creating more unemployment in the state.

[Whovian]

3. really good question.

[HiPointDem]

10. that's an interesting question. wonder if there's a way to find out.

[upi402]

4. Boeing outsourcing to S. Carolina was an epic fail

Costly as hell, with disastrous delays.

Now the fools want to double-down and go to MEXICO?

[eridani]

5. You'd think they'd learn, no? n/t

[Populist_Prole]

8. Hell, SC was just a temporary stop on the way to the way to Mexico

[upi402]

9. Globalization can go both ways. 'If it's Boeing I ain't going'

If Airbus treats workers better, this can happen here. Looks like an IWW rerun, huh?

[modem77]

6. If it's Boeing I'm not going.

[Populist_Prole]

7. +1. I hope Airbus kicks their asses

They're not roping me in with their faux patriotic bullshit as one of the last bastions of US exports, especially since they aim to be just a design bureau in some office park in suburban Chicago.

Since Boeing has crowed for years about wanting to be a virtual "manufacturer" of aircraft, and subbed lots of suppliers and large sub-assemblies overseas, I'd love to see a breakdown of "real" US content in Boeing vs Airbus aircraft these days.