http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing RSS Feed for KOMO - News - Boeing en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:51:59 GMT http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27956494.html Passing motorists honked their horns in a mixed chorus as scores of striking Boeing Co. machinists waved picket signs outside the plant entrance on the first day of their strike. And behind the signs there were mixed reactions to the strike, which began at 12:01 Saturday. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27937709.html Officials declared the Boeing Co.'s Auburn plants safe again after a suspicious device found inside a bathroom triggered alarm Friday afternoon. About 90 people were evacuated from the plant after a device was found on the premises, said Boeing spokesman Jim Proulx. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27917589.html Unless talks in Florida result in an agreement, members of the Boeing Machinists union are poised to strike Saturday at 12:01 a.m., when a 48-hour contract extension expires. Negotiators went to Florida to meet with a top union official in an eleventh-hour effort to forge a contract. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27906814.html U.S. regulators will tell airlines to quickly make changes aimed at preventing ice from building up in fuel lines of Boeing 777s, which British investigators said probably caused one of the jets to make a jarring emergency landing in London. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27881354.html Representatives from Boeing and the Machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union production workers soundly rejected a contract offer and voted to strike. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27822919.html A high-ranking Air Force official on Wednesday pressed the Pentagon to expedite the award of a disputed $35 billion contract for new aerial refueling tankers so the service can retire Eisenhower-era aircraft. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27820794.html More than 27,000 Boeing Co. aircraft assembly workers were voting Wednesday on whether to strike for an unprecedented second time in successive contract cycles. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27793859.html The federal government claims in a civil lawsuit that the Boeing Co. inflated the price it charged the Air Force for a towed decoy system to protect B-1 bombers from missiles. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27791644.html The Boeing Co. could face a second strike in as many contract negotiations with its machinists as union members prepared to vote Wednesday on the company's "best and final" offer. http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/27750024.html Boeing Co. and the machinists who assemble its commercial planes are marking time through a long holiday weekend before Wednesday's scheduled vote on the company's "best and final" contract offer. Union leaders have called for rejection and a walkout.