‘We’ll manage’: Boeing CEO downplays risks of strike by fighter assembly workforce

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Source: Boeing

Boeing chief executive Kelly Ortberg downplayed the potential impacts of a strike by the company’s fighter aircraft production workforce, noting that unit is roughly 10% the size of the commercial aircraft machinists unit that went on strike for more than seven weeks last year.

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