Boeing’s Finances Give Strikers All the Power: Thomas Black

While a strike by East Coast port workers is strangling the flow of goods from Maine to Texas and grabbing headlines, news of machinists at Boeing Co. about to enter their fourth week of picketing near Seattle has receded a bit into the background.

The impact from the port workers strike will increase by the day as the damage to the economy and consumers begins to bite. That’s not the case for Boeing and it workers. The effects won’t be visible to the public. Delays of plane deliveries, unfortunately, are nothing new to Boeing customers. They’ve been grappling with a dearth of ...