Tag: Boeing

Workers inspect the doors of a new Passat inside the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga Tenn., Wednesday. May 24,2011. (AP Photo/Billy Weeks)

Look for the union label to see how NLRB will rule in 2014

Sean Higgins · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Boeing, Etihad to develop aviation biofuels in Mideast

Washington Examiner · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

GE arm, Boeing confirm order for 40 planes

Washington Examiner · January 20, 2014 9:02 pm

Outgoing machinists union president Tom Wroblewski speaks at a signing event for legislation to help keep production of Boeing's new 777X in Washington State, in Seattle on Nov. 11. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

Boeing Seattle union chief retires after contract showdown

Sean Higgins · January 17, 2014 5:00 am

In this June 2, 2011 photo, the Boeing Co. 777 airplane assembly line is shown, in Everett, Wash. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Union members narrowly approve Boeing contract

Sean Higgins · January 5, 2014 5:00 am

Boeing machinists holding their completed ballots head to their polling place at a union hall on Friday in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Boeing machinists OK contract tied to 777X

Associated Press · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

A small group of machinists union members rally in favor of voting onÃÂ Boeing'sÃÂ last contract offer in front of the machinists' union hall Dec. 18 in Everett, Wash. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

Boeing not bluffing, Seattle union says

Sean Higgins · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Tom Buffenbarger, the president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who has forced a vote on a pension-freezing Boeing contract proposal, once called those retirement plans sacred and derided alternatives as risky. (AP Photo/Ron Wurzer)

Machinists chief once called pensions ‘sacred’

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

In a letter to members Thursday, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers President Tom Buffenbarger said that secret ballot elections were the best way to ensure that voters were "free from any coercive or disruptive circumstances." (AP file photo/Ted S. Warren)

Beltway Confidential

Union president says secret ballot best way to avoid coercion

Sean Higgins · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Boeing machinists union member Kevin Flynn walks near a union hall in support of his leaders' rejection of Boeing's last contract offer as he waits for a small group of protesters who instead favor a vote, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, in Everett, Wash. Local union leaders rejected the offer last week because they said it was too similar to one voted down last month, but the national union has set a vote date of Jan. 3. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

Union turmoil could cost Boeing workers their jobs

Sean Higgins · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Top leaders at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers overruled its Puget Sound branch, District 751, and ordered that it allow its members toÃÂ vote early next month on the latest proposed contract from the Boeing Co., where most of its members work. (AP/Kin Cheung)

Beltway Confidential

Top union leaders overrule local officials in Boeing dispute

Sean Higgins · December 24, 2013 5:00 am

Illinois has joined more than 20 other states trying to lure Boeing's production of the 777x airliner out of Washington state, but the company's long list of requirements could prove expensive. (AP/The Boeing Co.)

Experts: Boeing plant move unlikely for Illinois

David Mercer · December 18, 2013 5:00 am