Former and current employees at a Boeing plant in South Carolina claim the factory is overrun by 'shoddy production and weak oversight that have threatened to compromise safety,' The New York Times reports
Washington Former and current employees at a Boeing plant in South Carolina that produces the company's 787 Dreamliner claim the factory is overrun by"shoddy production and weak oversight that have threatened to compromise safety" -- a revelation that surfaces as Boeing is under fire over a separate aircraft, the New York Times reported Saturday.
The paper said a review of"hundreds of pages of internal emails, corporate documents and federal records," as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees of the North Charleston plant, revealed"a culture that often valued production speed over quality.
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