Boeing investigation turns to battery maker
Source: AP-Excite
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese and U.S. investigators began a probe Monday into the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing's grounded 787 jets.
Tsutomu Nishijima, a spokesman for GS Yuasa, the battery manufacturer, said investigators visited the company's headquarters in Kyoto, Japan and that Yuasa was cooperating with the probe.
All 50 of the 787 Dreamliners that Boeing has delivered to airlines were grounded after an overheated battery forced the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways 787 flight last week in western Japan. Boeing has halted deliveries of new planes until it can address the electrical problems.
Monday's investigation involved an introductory meeting and factory tour, with deeper studies into product quality and other issues to follow as the probe continues, said Tatsuyuki Shimazu, the chief air worthiness engineer at the Civil Aviation Bureau's Aviation Safety Department.
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...as a reason. Half of the Dream Liners work is being done in right-to-work South Carolina.
In my state (WA) after being here over 100 years, Boeing hasn't paid a single dime in taxes for almost 2 decades, indeed they actually get money back for "being so nice" as to be an employer. In the 1970s they desecrated Seattle and hold that over the legislator's heads for those tax breaks because it was so devastating. Then after getting all those bennies, they move their offices to Chicago proclaiming it did not mean anything...yeah right sure about six months later and 3 DAYS after 9/11, they lay off 30,000 people crying that they "had to" when in fact they had been planning that for months and using 9/11 as an excuse for it. Soon after that they began to move their plants to South Carolina, a right to work state so they would not have to bother with silly things for their employees like a decent union or health care. South Caroline has good workers, nobody's saying they are not but, why have any loyalty to a company who does not have to pay you a livable wage and they can dump you whenever they do not like the sox you wear (or the color of the skin you are born with)?
Then we wonder why there is shoddy workmanship and they pretend the work was done under fair working conditions never once mentioning that this manufacturing is being done in a non-union dump.
A Boeing neighbor who is a dummass Tea Partier and hates his union (SPEAA) was going to transfer in a huff to SC because finally, why he was going to work in the "right" atmosphere. It was all I could do to stifle a laugh when he decided against it. He discovered would lose his decent health care (along with his college age daughter who needed it for his grandson), seniority was gone, the cost of living was not that much better for the cut in wages he would have gotten, and the schools suck for his younger kids. He thinks he is "poor" because he "only" makes $100,000 a year and it is "all the union's fault" he cannot go to SC because see, "they did not care about "those white people" when in fact the union CAN'T go there.
GAWD sometimes I want to scream ....
Cat in Seattle 
