Boeing workers gather on a picket line near the entrance to a Boeing facility during an ongoing strike on October 24, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images Boeing‘s more than seven-week machinist strike is set to hit Friday’s U.S. jobs report — the last one that will be released before Nov. 5 … Read more
Boeing 737 fuselages on railcars at Spirit AeroSystems’ factory in Wichita, Kansas, on July 1, 2024. Nick Oxford | Bloomberg | Getty Images Spirit AeroSystems is weighing furloughs or layoffs of hundreds more employees if the Boeing machinists’ strike stretches beyond Nov. 25, a company spokesman told CNBC on Thursday. Boeing’s machinists, whose strike is … Read more
People hold signs during a strike rally for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) at the Seattle Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, on October 15, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Boeing machinists voted against a new labor deal that included 35% wage increases over four years, their union said … Read more
Ryan Bergh, a machinist at Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington for 10 years, cheers during a strike rally for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) at the Seattle Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) Jason Redmond … Read more
Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing’s 737 Max production facility await shipment on rail sidings at their top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc., in Wichita, Kansas, on Dec. 17, 2019. Nick Oxford | Reuters Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems will furlough some 700 workers as a strike by machinists at the plane maker enters its sixth week, … Read more
Boeing Machinists union members picket outside a Boeing factory on September 13, 2024 in Renton, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images It’s been just over a month since more than 30,000 Boeing machinists walked off the job after overwhelmingly voting down a tentative contract. Costs and tensions have only risen since then. The strike is … Read more
A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is assembled at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington, on June 25, 2024. Jennifer Buchanan | Afp | Getty Images Boeing workers are voting on a new labor contract on Thursday, setting up the potential for a crippling strike if staff members decide to reject the deal just as … Read more
Jennifer Homendy, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during investigative hearing, into the blowout of a left mid exit door plug on a Boeing 737-9 MAX during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 flight on January 5, 2024, at the National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington D.C. United States on August 6, 2024. (Photo … Read more
An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight from Los Angeles approaches for landing at Reagan National Airport shortly after an announcement was made by the FAA that the planes were being grounded by the United States in Washington, U.S. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Boeing executives spent years after two fatal 737 Max crashes trying to … Read more
Boeing Co. 737 fuselage sections sit on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing said Monday that it will buy back its struggling fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems in an all-stock deal that the planemaker has said will improve safety and quality control. It said it … Read more
