Striking workers’ rejection of planemaker Boeing’s latest contract offer has created a fresh threat to operations at aerospace suppliers such as family-run Independent Forge.
Spirit AeroSystems will tell employees that it will furlough 700 workers for 21 days as an over month-long strike at U.S. planemaker Boeing eats into the supplier’s cash and inventory space
Based on data from a supplier, the two largest commercial airline manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, may have used titanium delivered with forged documentation. This has prompted an inquiry by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Just two months after another employee allegedly died by suicide after voicing concerns about the company, a second Boeing whistleblower who revealed that one of the carrier’s suppliers was neglecting manufacturing flaws has now died unexpectedly as well on Tuesday.
The FAA said that inspections of an initial group of 40 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes have been completed.
A mid-air blowout has put jetmaker Boeing in the exact place investors and management hoped it would avoid – back in the regulatory crosshairs.