Aviation
Boeing’s next crisis: Aerospace workers demanding 40% pay raise
A strike would shut down Boeing plants in Washington and Oregon, including assembly lines for its cash-cow 737 jets
Boeing executives have spent the past month grappling with the aftermath of a near-catastrophe on an airborne 737 Max jet. As the US planemaker works through its latest crisis tied to manufacturing lapses, a new risk looms: a labor rift 10 years in the making.
Boeing’s largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, is still smarting over a 2014 deal that sacrificed pensions, locked in minimal raises and tied the hands of ...
