Boeing workers increasingly angry, worried as coronavirus infections rise inside the factories [View all]

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Source: Seattle Times

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One employee on the 777 assembly line described how an ambulance arrived earlier this week and medical responders wearing the now-routine protective gear of hospital smocks, masks and goggles took away a sick worker. He said the people who worked nearby were left in position — contradicting Boeing’s own guidelines that call for anyone suspected to have been exposed to be sent home and quarantined.

He said a janitorial crew came around and wiped down the area around the aircraft where the sick employee had worked, including the mobile crawler that moves the partially built plane along in the moving assembly line.

“But they didn’t touch the inside of the plane where everyone is working,” he said. “It’s a perfect petri dish for the virus to spread...

Another employee who works on assembly of the new 777X noted that workers commute to the Everett plant from all over the region — from Puyallup to the south, Arlington to the north, Gold Bar to the east and Whidbey Island to the west — and so “the exposures Boeing is sending people out with could shoot this thing far and wide.”

Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/worry-over-coronavirus-grows-among-boeing-factory-workforce/

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Unconscionable.

And the entire region will pay the price.