Boeing Cuts Costs, Screws Employees

Military stint may cost Boeing workers OT

Boeing, the nation's largest aircraft manufacturer, wrote the Labor Department in June, saying it "strongly supports" the revisions, particularly one that would classify employees who had received military training as "learned experts" who could lose access to overtime pay.

Boeing also supports harebrained plans to go to Mars, missile defense shields that don't work (and wouldn't protect us from most of the world's threats even if they did), and infinite wars all of which involve lucrative contracts that Boeing receives from the government, a.k.a. Boeing's #1 customer, a.k.a. the "cash cow".

Under federal law, workers who are "learned professionals" are presumed to have control of their own time and are exempt from receiving overtime pay.

Assphincter says "what"? "Learned professionals"? In the most general of interpretations, wouldn't that include, well, just about all of the non-degreed (a college degree being, apparently, how one is determined to be a "professional") workforce in the world? And maybe it's just me, but I'm completely confused by the statement that these "learned professionals...have control of their own time" and that this necessarily means they, then, don't qualify for overtime pay.

It seems to me that all of this is just another way that BushCo is paying back big corporations for all the campaign contributions...at the expense of working Americans.