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Eyes on Boeing Perception of company’s fortunes affects interest in aerospace training
Pay hike likely despite turmoil Snohomish City Manager Larry Bauman is poised to get a 3 percent raise even after a highprofile dispute with homeowners billed for old development fees. By Amy Nile Herald Writer
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David Han (left), 32, of Lynnwood, watches Michael Stein complete and examine his own work with aircraft aluminum during a technical training course Friday at the Washington Aerospace Training and Research Center at Paine Field. Stein, 24, arrived from San Jose, California, specifically for the training courses being offered.
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EVERETT — Four years on, Washington’s showcase effort to train aerospace workers is quietly feeding the industry new talent and helping the under-skilled get family-wage manufacturing jobs. David Han signed up for a course at the Washington Aerospace Training and Research Center (WATR) at Paine Field after 10 years in customer service. The Lynnwood resident knew he didn’t want to sit behind a desk, and, with a young daughter, he needed a career to support his family. He has two weeks left in the three
month course, and like most WATR students, Han, 32, is focused on landing at the Boeing Co., which assembles widebody jetliners just north of the school. “They don’t want to just grab anyone off the street. If you have something like the WATR program behind you, it is a lot easier to get your foot in the door,” Han said as he took a break from drilling two steel plates together. “As you’re drilling, the plates need to be perfectly aligned or you can get burrs in between the plates,” Han explained. “That’s not good.” Machinists assembling metal-skin jetliners drill thousands of rivet holes. The slightest mistakes on the assembly line can lead to costly — and, in the worst
case, deadly — consequences later on if they are not corrected. Han isn’t alone in looking to Boeing for work. “That’s the goal,” said Mike Stein. The 24-year-old moved from San Jose, California, to enroll at WATR and — hopefully — get a job at Boeing. He will look at other aerospace manufacturing companies after he finishes the WATR course later this month, but, he said, he is not familiar with any other businesses. “Boeing is the best-known company,” Stein said. With more than 80,000 employees in
SNOHOMISH — The City Council is likely tonight to raise City Manager Larry Bauman’s annual pay by 3 percent to $140,051, based on his performance in 2013. That was a rocky year at Snohomish City Hall. Bauman led the city through a headline-generating dispute between officials and homeowners who had been billed for development fees incurred before they moved in — and the council eventually sided with the homeowners. “We were between a rock and a hard place,” Mayor Karen Guzak said. “Larry’s decision was to follow the law.” Bauman handled the situation as best he could, she said. The council, Guzak said, eventually decided to go against legal advice and take the side of the homeowners. State auditors may issue negative findings, she said. The council earlier this month reviewed Bauman’s job performance. Bauman, who has held the post for 12 years, said it did not call for improvements. Last year, Bauman got a 7.5 percent raise. His pay was increased 2 percent the previous year. He did not get a raise from 2009 until 2012. In addition to his salary, Bauman receives $500 a month for car expenses. “All of us agree, he’s doing an outstanding job,” the mayor said. Until last December, Snohomish
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OLYMPIA — Union leaders representing Boeing machinists and mill workers don’t know how Gov. Jay Inslee might change
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stuff but the extreme (policy) will have a negative impact on jobs.” Labor leaders carried out their pre-emptive attack on the unreleased policy in the official state reception room in the Capitol — one floor above the governor’s office. Mark Johnson, aerospace coordinator of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, led the way. Workers want to separate “fact
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from fiction” on the fish consumption issue and “see if we can turn the government around on this issue,” he said. Yet he and the other participants couldn’t provide many facts about the doom they predicted or specific objections to the course Inslee and the Department of Ecology are taking. With Inslee expected to reveal his proposal soon, Johnson said the unions wanted to publicize
This is the best news for Americans’ brain cells since the phasing out of leaded gasoline. A Siri for pizza: Domino’s is introducing an app function that will let customers place orders by speaking with a computer-generated voice called “Dom” (Business Briefly, Page A7).
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their concerns about the aerospace and pulp mill jobs that would be lost if companies such as Boeing and Weyerhaeuser cannot comply. Inslee administration officials attending the news conference could barely conceal their pique. At one point David Postman, Inslee’s communications director See UNIONS, back page, this section
political terms “left wing” and “right wing,” with deputies representing commoners sitting to the left and nobles sitting to the right (Today in History, Page A2). We’ve simplified things in the modern era. No matter where Congress members sit, we know who they represent: the big money donors.
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water quality rules based on how much fish people eat. But that didn’t stop them Monday from warning that it’ll be bad, it will cost jobs and they don’t like it. “We want clean water but we believe this is just too extreme,” Greg Pallesen, international vice president of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers, said at a news conference. “We can have great intentions on this
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Warnings of job losses are raised, but Gov. Jay Inslee’s staff says labor’s jumping the gun.
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