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Boeing factory strike crosses 1-month mark as pressure mounts on CEO

Travel NewsOctober 14, 20242Views

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.…

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Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike

Boeing 737 MAX airliners are pictured at the company's factory in Renton, Washington, on Sept. 12, 2024. Stephen Brashear | AP Boeing will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 17,000 people, as the company's losses mount and a machinist strike that has idled its aircraft factories enters its fifth week. It…

October 11, 20242Views

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Boeing delivers 33 jets in September but strike impact looms

Boeing 737s on the ground in Renton, Washington. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Boeing delivered 33 airplanes in September, six more than during the same period a year earlier, as the company and its customers keep an eye on the impact of a machinist strike, now in its fourth week. Through September, Boeing…

October 8, 20244Views

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Boeing starts furloughing ‘large number’ of employees amid strike

Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing will temporarily furlough thousands of U.S. executives, managers and other staff, citing the ongoing machinist strike as the company races to…

September 18, 20246Views

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Boeing freezes hiring in sweeping cost cuts as it grapples with factory worker strike

Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing announced sweeping cost cuts on Monday, including a hiring freeze, a pause on nonessential staff travel and a reduction on supplier…

September 16, 202410Views

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Here’s what the Boeing strike might mean for flyers

Union members react as Aerospace Machinists District 751 President Jon Holden (out of frame) announces that union members rejected a proposed Boeing contract and will go on strike, following voting results at their union hall in Seattle, Washington, on September 12, 2024. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Boeing workers went on strike Friday,…

September 13, 20249Views

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Strike will ‘jeopardize’ recovery, hurt aircraft production

Union members hold picket signs during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM District 751 Main Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing CFO Brian West said the labor strike that began…

September 13, 20246Views

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Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strike

More than 30,000 Boeing workers were set to strike Friday, halting production of most of the company's aircraft after staff overwhelmingly rejected a new labor contract. It's a costly development for the manufacturer that has struggled to ramp up production and restore its reputation following safety crises. Workers in the Seattle area…

September 13, 20248Views

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Boeing faces strike threat as workers vote on new contract

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 Thursday, setting up the potential for a crippling strike that the company's CEO said would jeopardize the…

September 12, 202410Views

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Boeing and union reach a labor deal, potentially averting a strike

A Boeing employees works outside of the cockpit of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane in the company's factory, on March 27, 2019 in Renton, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Boeing and the union that represents some 33,000 of its workers have struck a new labor deal, just days before a…

September 8, 202412Views