Spotlight: McDonnell Workers Get Efficiency Bonuses

Nearly 8,000 McDonnell Douglas Corp. workers in Long Beach on Friday will receive bonuses averaging $890 for creating ways to save time on airplane production tasks. The savings are split with McDonnell under a “gainsharing” plan adopted in its 1995 contract with United Aerospace Workers Local 148. Local President Kedrick Legg said worker skepticism about the program is changing “now that they’ve seen some results.” Next year’s bonuses should be much larger, the company said.