A Washington State newspaper report says Boeing is planning to move some of 1,200 jobs on the West Coast to Alabama because the engineers they will hire here will work cheap.
But documents obtained by The Seattle Times also show the company believes convincing some of their current labor pool to move from Seattle and Southern California to Huntsville will be a problem:
- Essential expertise may leave Boeing. Rival companies could poach critical talent.
- The best candidates from inside or outside Boeing may not want to live and work at the new sites.
- New hires not being co-located with the departing experienced people could impede knowledge transfer.
- Morale could be damaged.
- The move could spark unionization efforts at the new engineering sites.

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