About 3,200 Boeing jet and weapons workers begin strike - ABC News

About 3,200 union members at Boeing facilities in Missouri and Illinois went on strike at midnight on Monday after rejecting an contract offer from the company, the union said. 

 Local members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who build and maintain fighter jets, including the F-15 and F/A-18 models, voted on Sunday to reject Boeing's latest contract offer…

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/3200-boeing-jet-weapons-workers-begin-strike/story

 

China sends back new Boeing jet made more expensive by tariffs

Last week it was reported that China's government had asked Chinese airlines to pause purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from American companies like Boeing. China holds about 20% of the expected global demand for aircraft over the next two decades...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/china-returns-boeing-737-jet-us-too-expensive-tariffs

 

Boeing workers end bitter seven-week strike after clinching new pay deal

The union said members voted 59% in favor of the new contract, which includes a 38% pay rise spread over four years, easing pressure on new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg after two previous offers were voted down in recent weeks...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/05/boeing-workers-end-strike-walkout-seattle-portland-california  

FAA Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues - The New York Times

The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html

Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News' FAA and Boeing attack is ableist

While conservatives feel compelled to wink-and-nod and avoid explicitly racist language when attacking racial diversity issues, they are more explicit in their arguments against hiring people with disabilities. They recycle the trope that has justified either not hiring people with disabilities or even paying them below the minimum wage: that disabled labor is somehow less or that they are not capable of doing their jobs. In attacking the FAA initiative, they're calling out DEI in an industry that's unspeakably miserable for people with disabilities...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/donald-trump-jr-faa-dei-attack-rcna134514

Haley Fumbles Civil War Question | Trump Panders To Iowa’s Evangelicals | Boeing's 737 Blunder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EOHu_r8VoU

Boeing sued by flight attendants claiming plane design let 'toxic air' into cabin | TheHill

Three flight attendants are suing Boeing, claiming the company designed a plane that allows “toxic air” into the cabin that made them sick. The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday asserts that the planes utilize a “bleed air system” that takes in air that allegedly contains various chemicals off the engines outside, The Chicago Tribune reported. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/480830-boeing-sued-by-flight-attendants-claiming-that-plane-design

FAA let Boeing 737 Max continue to fly even as review found serious crash risk

US regulators allowed Boeing’s 737 Max to keep flying even after their own analysis found the plane could have averaged one fatal crash about every two or three years without intervention. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/11/boeing-737-max-plane-faa-regulators-crash-risk

How government deregulation is killing people – Raw Story

Your government at work: Members of Congress were hot on both sides of the aisle last week about air safety, relentlessly attacking Boeing over safety lapses on the 737 Max. But they were pretty silent about our government’s role altogether in giving the job of supervising new technology to the air manufacturers themselves.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/how-government-deregulation-is-killing-people/

Boeing pilot warned about 'egregious' issue with 737 Max before deadly crashes: report - The Hill

Messages from 2016 reportedly show that a Boeing pilot working on the 737 Max warned that the new automated system was making the plane hard to control during flight simulations.....
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/466477-Boeing-pilot-warned-about-issues-with-737-Max-before-deadly-crashes

Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism | Matt Stoller - the guardian

The plight of Boeing shows the perils of modern capitalism. The corporation is a wounded giant. Much of its productive capacity has been mothballed following two crashes in six months of the 737 Max, the firm's flagship product: the result of safety problems Boeing hid from regulators. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing-capitalism-deregulation

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers - Bloomberg

It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.....
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers

The real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice - YouTube

This isn’t just a computer bug. It’s a scandal.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tuKiiznsY

The Boeing scandal is an indictment of Trump’s corporate America

There is growing alarm in the US that Capitol Hill’s bonfire of the regulations has led to hundreds of deaths. It may be a turning point....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/07/boeing-737-max-regulation-corporate-america

Additional software problem detected in Boeing 737 Max flight control system, officials say - The Washington Post

Federal aviation regulators have ordered Boeing to fix a second problem with the flight-control system of its grounded 737 Max, the company acknowledged Thursday, as new details emerged that pilots of two planes could not counteract a malfunction of the system using the company’s recommended procedures...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ethiopia-says-pilots-performed-boeings-recommendations-to-stop-doomed-aircraft-from-diving-urges-review-of-737-max-flight-control-system/2019/04/04/3a125942-4fec-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html

Pilots complained at least 5 times about Boeing 737 MAX problems, records show - POLITICO

Some of the incidents appear to involve the same anti-stall system that has come up as a potential cause of October's Indonesia crash...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/12/pilots-boeing-737-1266090

Did the White House just jack up the initial Boeing price tag on Air Force One repairs so Trump could pretend to win a deal? -- Raw Story

The White House announced a deal with Boeing for the two Air Force One planes the company was developing for the U.S. government. .....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/white-house-just-jack-initial-price-tag-air-force-one-repairs-trump-pretend-win-deal/

Trump’s online bullying lands him $1 million donation from Boeing

President-elect Donald Trump’s social media attacks on Boeing sent its stock prices tumbling. Boeing has responded by pledging $1 million to help underwrite inaugural events, according to a company official who spoke with USA Today.

News of the Boeing donation came mere days after Trump called on the government to cancel Boeing’s contract to build a brand new 747 Air Force One “for future presidents,” saying it would cost $4 billion. Boeing secured the contract in January to replace the current Air Force One jumbo jets within the next decade....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-boeing-inauguration-1-million-d7a98fead177#.lu36p7jbv

Robert Reich: Has Trump no decency?

Democracy requires freedom to criticize those in power without fear of retribution. Trump's lashing out in tweets at Carrier union boss and Boeing exec show a tendency that poses a danger to our democracy, says Robert Reich.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/opinions/trump-reaction-to-critics-reich/index.html

Robert Reich scolds Donald Trump: “This is bullying. This is not using the bully pulpit”

It’s unclear what President-elect Donald Trump thought he was accomplishing by lashing out on Twitter against Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers’ Local 1999. As former labor secretary Robert Reich made clear on “Anderson Cooper 360″ on Wednesday night, however, the overall impression is not good.

 “With all due respect, Mr. Trump, you are our president-elect of the United States,” Reich said on the cable news show, seemingly addressing his remarks in the direction of the president-elect. “You are looking and acting as if you are mean and petty, thin-skinned and vindictive. Stop this. This is not a fireside chat.”...
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/08/robert-reich-scolds-donald-trump-this-is-bullying-this-is-not-using-the-bully-pulpit/