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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   HAVE YOUR SAY Feel strongly about something? Share it with the community by writing a letter to the editor. You’ll need to include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We’ll only publish your name and hometown.) We reserve the right to edit letters, but if you keep yours to 300 words or less, we won’t ask you to shorten it. If your letter is published, please wait 30 days before submitting another. Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Fax: 425-339-3458 Have a question about letters? Contact Carol MacPherson (cmacpherson@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3472).   Published: Thursday, October 2, 2008 BOEING Show some respect to young families As a community organizer for over 30 years, I strongly feel that I must write this letter. Contrary to one of the national candidates' notion that as a community organizers we have no responsibilities, that is not true at all. When there is a crisis affecting where we live, our neighbors, our children and our elders, we react and pull our boots on and galvanize collective energies when no one else stands up to be counted. Well, this is one of those times. During this period of economic upheavel among our largest financial institutions, I am at a quandary as to why Boeing management has its earplugs on tightly and is prolonging the Machinists strike. This time, all the media, both local and national, plastered the headlines with the word "greed"! Come on, highly paid CEOs. Give some respect to our young families. Men and women who are second-, third- and sometimes fourth-generation employees of Boeing. Collectively, they are the movers of Boeing. They sacrifice their mind and body every time you need to catch up on your delayed orders. There are plenty of human touches among all of the Machinists. They are not asking for much that will cost Boeing to be bailed out by taxpayers. CEOs must partner with the Machinists and eliminate one more uncertainty in all our hearts. Maria Ambalada Lynnwood

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