Source: By Dominic Gates, Seattle Times, September 10, 2008

A resolution of the Machinists strike at Boeing may rest finally upon one perennial issue: the outsourcing of Machinist work now done in local plants. The union’s ambition isn’t to scrap the global-manufacturing model Boeing established with the new 787 Dreamliner, in which huge sections of the aircraft are completed overseas and elsewhere in this country. Boeing appears irrevocably committed to that strategic model, and the union can do little about it.