Boeing To Layoff Thousands Of Workers As Strike Continues
Thousands of Boeing employees will be given their pink slips within the next few weeks, multiple union and industry sources claimed.
Thousands of Boeing employees will be given their pink slips within the next few weeks, multiple union and industry sources claimed.
Boeing factory workers will hold a large rally in Seattle to demand a better wage deal, plunging the troubled planemaker further into financial crisis.
Talks between Boeing and its key manufacturing union broke down, and no negotiations are currently planned as the financially damaging strike heads into a fourth week.
Boeing increased its wage offer to thousands of striking workers on Monday, offering a %30 general wage increase over four years in what the company called its “best and final” offer as the strike continues for a second week.
Boeing employees walked off the job site at Boeing Factories near Seattle on Friday morning after union members voted to go on strike and reject a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25% over a four-year span.
A wheel has fallen off a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 just moments after takeoff.
GE Aerospace is developing a hybrid electric engine in hopes it will power next-generation narrow-body jets by the middle of the next decade.