Boeing’s #1 problem is not that they lack a culture of accountability.

It’s that they *hate unions* and *hate criticism.* So many of Boeing's major actions in the last 20, even 30 years have had to do with their attempts to break unions and escape political pressure in Washington State. The payoff is pressing workers without enough training, denigrating and overruling the work of union employees, and outsourcing work to avoid increasing union employment. This has cost them $10s of billions.

@glennf Hey, remember that time when Boeing got an $8.7B tax break from the state, then started moving non-Machinists union jobs out of state anyway?

I hope we start charging them extra to stay here.

@mattmay Good times, good times. Amazingly, Inslee survived that. His worst decision by a nautical mile. I think Boeing later *asked* for the break to be suspended for WTO rules…

@glennf Yep. I think it was originally $10B, but they couldn’t cash in that other $1.3B because of the WTO decision.

Anyway, we know what they are now. We don’t need to be the ones to bail them out of this one.

@mattmay Just imagine if they hadn't wasted 25 years or more being anti-union. It wouldn't have been a paradise, but I am *pretty* sure the Dreamliner wouldn't be never profitable and the MAX 8/9 wouldn't have passed the smell test.
@glennf Yeah, when I looked into it and found out that contractor, Spirit, was recently called “Boeing” I had that Scooby-Doo villain reax