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Re:A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line by jrf6 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:28AM (#14255443)
The article also cited the lower wages in Alabama. The pay scale tops out at $23 an hour, and the workforce is not unionized.
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Re:A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line by jonknee on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:21PM (#14257202)
The $158m in incentives that Alabama paid were also part of it:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/big_incentives_at_s...

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Re:A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line by howard941 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:23PM (#14259694)
As was the hope Airbus would land the Air Force tanker contract it lost to Boeing.
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