Raytheon, Others Must Face Antitrust Case Over No-Poach Claims

Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney unit and five other aerospace manufacturers lost their bid to end antitrust litigation over their alleged pact pledging to refrain from recruiting one another’s jet propulsion engineers.

Judge Sarala V. Nagala let the case move forward, saying it’s plausible the companies participated in a “no poach” scheme aimed at reducing the wages and mobility of skilled workers in Connecticut, where each of the high-tech manufacturers has a presence.

The ruling came six weeks after executives at some of the same companies, including Pratt & Whitney, failed to shake a parallel prosecution by the Justice ...