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Aerospace
- May 23, 2013
- 10,767
Not a surprise. Union leadership is to negotiate on behalf of the members. Refusing to take an offer to them indicates, bluff or not, that it's not worth taking a vote.
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AP said:SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing is giving the union representing striking factory workers more time to consider a revised contract offer with bigger pay increases and more bonus money, but it was unclear Tuesday whether the union would schedule a ratification vote on the proposal.
On picket lines in the Pacific Northwest, strikers said the company’s latest offer wasn’t good enough. Both the union and many of its members complained about the way Boeing bypassed the union in publicizing the offer, with some workers saying it was an unfair attempt to make them look greedy.
Boeing’s new “best and final” offer includes pay raises of 30% over four years, up from 25% in a deal that 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers overwhelmingly rejected when they voted to strike. The union originally demanded 40% over three years.
In the face of opposition from the union, Boeing backed down Tuesday from a demand that workers vote on the new offer by Friday night, but the company still wants a vote.
AVweb said:"The NTSB says the rudders on "more than" 353 Boeing 737NG and MAX aircraft can freeze stuck and it's suggested the manufacturer come up with a solution besides stomping on the pedals to free them up. The board issued an urgent safety recommendation Thursday resulting from its investigation of an incident in Newark last February in which the rudder pedals jammed on a United MAX after landing. The pilots couldn't budge the rudder, so the captain kept the plane on the runway using the tiller.
The investigation determined that moisture can get inside the rollout guidance actuator, which is only used during CAT IIIB approaches but remains mechanically attached to the rudder controls all the time. In cold weather, the water seeping in through a faulty bearing freezes inside the actuator and hampers the pilots' ability to control the rudder. Collins makes the actuator and has told Boeing about the problem.
The board is suggesting the faulty actuators be removed (presumably limiting low-visibility operations) until freeze-proof units can be installed. The board says the flight manual tells pilots with a stuck rudder to “overpower the jammed or restricted system [using] maximum force, including a combined effort of both pilots,” which could make matters worse by resulting in a sudden full deflection of the rudder. It's urging Boeing to come up with another plan for pilots facing a stuck rudder."
IAM said:Day 15 - Strike Update
September 27, 2024
Even the pups are Holding the Line!
NBC said:BUSINESS NEWS
Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry. Now it's struggling to stay relevant.
Intel, long the most valuable U.S. chipmaker, is now a fraction of the size of Nvidia by market cap, and smaller than Qualcomm, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and AMD.
NBC News Article said:Intel made efforts to break into smartphones. It released an x86-based mobile chip called Atom that was used in the 2012 Asus Zenphone. But it never sold well and the product line was dead by 2015.
Gelsinger said:“Job number one was to accelerate our efforts to close the technology gap that was created by over a decade of underinvestment,” Gelsinger told investors on Thursday.
Quote said:Nearly every modern smartphone uses an Arm-based chip instead of Intel’s x86 technology which was created for PCs in 1981 and is still in use.