damn, i mean, you're not wrong, but i'd hate to be the executive assistant to the execs when they read that. by hate, i mean it'd totally be awesome to see their reactions

Doesnt the space industry average include mostly office work? Hardly seems fair to compare actual physical construction and ops work at a developmental test site to desk jobs.

Space industry average is an utterly useless and idiotic thing used for comparison.

Most of those companies make tiny sats, or things like small thrusters. Or even small sub-components. And even those that build larger things, build them at far smaller rates.

SpaceX in Brownsville should be compared to things like manufacturing oil platforms or maybe wind power plants.

It's not hard to find that SpaceX has an average injury rate

The magic of unions, when it comes to safety, is that they let employees feel safe not just reporting safety issues, but outright rejecting unsafe requests. Even in union shops, unsafe directives are issued, against policy and law alike, but unlike non-union shops, workers in union shops know someone’s got their back if they call it out and/or say “no”.

Well Boeing is unable to launch anything nor deliver on their end of Commercial Crew, so maybe they need a good excuse to not have to do anything for a while.

Boeing outsources a lot more because of that, leading to the time when the Starliner subcontractor had to get an amputation.