http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/08/19/crist-in-jacksonville-to-meet-senate-hopefuls-tour-boeing-facility/ Your Independent Alternative! Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/08/19/crist-in-jacksonville-to-meet-senate-hopefuls-tour-boeing-facility/comment-page-1/#comment-2152 Caren Schwartz Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:41:24 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=5039#comment-2152 While Governor Crist was patting Boeing employees on the back at Cecil Field yesterday, a very different story is going on in Mesa Arizona where the disgruntled employees who will lose their jobs when the operations move to Cecil Field and the trainees from FL are working under armed guard because the situation there is so hostile. Additionally, Boeing hired some of its new Cecil Field employees under false pretenses. Many relocated to FL only to find out that they'd be working in AZ for most of their first year with the company. Boeing has not been upfront with their new employees, nor have they provided them with adequate living facilities while in AZ. They have them stuck in small hotel rooms for months at a time where they cannot even cook a meal for themselves and then cut their food budget in half to make it more difficult to eat in restaurants. They supply one rental car per 4 or 5 employees making it difficult to get around to do even the simplest of things. These employees have homes, lives, families and cars in Florida where they were told they'd be living, NOT in AZ. They are allowed to come home for 7-10 days per month (Boeing chooses when they come and go) and that is not time off, they are working in Cecil Field during that time. Some of the new hires are Veterans with up to 30 years experience working on U.S. Navy planes, being paid paltry salaries by Boeing and treated terribly. SHAME ON BOEING! Perhaps Governor Crist needs to take a closer look here. While Governor Crist was patting Boeing employees on the back at Cecil Field yesterday, a very different story is going on in Mesa Arizona where the disgruntled employees who will lose their jobs when the operations move to Cecil Field and the trainees from FL are working under armed guard because the situation there is so hostile.
Additionally, Boeing hired some of its new Cecil Field employees under false pretenses. Many relocated to FL only to find out that they’d be working in AZ for most of their first year with the company.
Boeing has not been upfront with their new employees, nor have they provided them with adequate living facilities while in AZ. They have them stuck in small hotel rooms for months at a time where they cannot even cook a meal for themselves and then cut their food budget in half to make it more difficult to eat in restaurants. They supply one rental car per 4 or 5 employees making it difficult to get around to do even the simplest of things. These employees have homes, lives, families and cars in Florida where they were told they’d be living, NOT in AZ. They are allowed to come home for 7-10 days per month (Boeing chooses when they come and go) and that is not time off, they are working in Cecil Field during that time. Some of the new hires are Veterans with up to 30 years experience working on U.S. Navy planes, being paid paltry salaries by Boeing and treated terribly. SHAME ON BOEING! Perhaps Governor Crist needs to take a closer look here.

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