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Should workers be allowed a veto power over Boeing's, or any company's, ability to enter into collaborative manufacturing agreements with foreign manufacturers and markets?

Developing a new jetliner is so expensive that NO single company can underwrite the multi-billion dollar expense. Boeing probably could not have developed the Dreamliner without the guaranteed orders, and associated outsourcing, that the machinist's union would try to veto.

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