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The Machinists union will strike the Boeing Co., starting at midnight.

Extended talks in Florida - involving federal mediators and the union's top international officers - failed, union district president Tom...

Boeing contract talks have gone into overtime.

Fully 87 percent of the Machinists union membership voted in favor of a strike Tuesday, but the union's bargaining team has delayed the start of the strike for 48 hours, giving...

The Fed's new Beige Book report is out, showing a worrisome combination of higher costs for food and fuel across the West, coupled with lower wage gains as layoffs reduce demand for workers.

Here are the highlights from the San...

Members of the International Association of Machinists have begun voting on a proposed three-year contract with the Boeing Co.

If you've never been at one of the union halls for a contract vote, you've missed labor/management...

Machinist union leaders have rejected Boeing's best-and-final contract offer, calling it insufficient in several areas.

Union rank-and-file will vote on Wednesday, and if two-thirds of them agree with their leadership...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a Vandal.

The newly announced Republican candidate for vice president, whose maiden name was Heath, is a Sandpoint native who graduated from the University of Idaho in 1987, with a degree in...

Boeing has offered its union Machinists an 11 percent pay raise over the next three years, plus immediate bonuses of at least $5,000.

The company just presented the union with its "best and final" offer. It plans a press...

There's a lot of consolidation going on in the beverage distribution industry, which was one of the reasons we wanted to take a look at it.

And sure enough, just as our magazine was at the printers last week, Alaska...

In case you missed it, Forbes recently listed Washington No. 3 on its annual list of the top states in which to do business.

As I noted in Monday's newsletter, I talked with the Forbes editor in charge of the list, Kurt...

Contract talks are also going poorly, Machinist leader says

A stock player from Kent is the runner-up in CNBC's annual "Million-Dollar Portfolio Challenge," having beat out all but one of the nearly 254,000 other contestants in the online virtual investment game.

David Lesser...

Top Boeing executives gave an upbeat forecast of the company's future prospects this morning, but disappointing results in the most-recent quarter has got Wall Street pushing down the share price this afternoon.

Boeing announced...

Things are winding down at Farnborough. Boeing's big news for the day was that it finalized the Air China order that was announced Tuesday in China, for 15 777s and 30 737s.  

But, for you fans of big military...

Boeing landed two more jet orders today, while Cougar-in-Chief Scott Carson played nice with his Airbus counterparts and Boeing's St. Louis-based defense unit smacked Team Toulouse upside the head with an oil...

Boeing continues to land orders at Farnborough, even as Airbus delayed its expected big air show press briefing.

Today's big deal was Boeing's 45-jet order from Air China. The Shanghai-based carrier wants 15 777s and 30 737s....

SEATTLE - A telemetry glitch has spoiled Boeing's plans for the first flight of its new 777 cargo jet.

The plane took off under near-perfect weather this morning at Everett's Paine Field, and the flight crew reported the plane...

Boeing got off to a good start Monday at the Farnborough Air Show, announcing a new order for 50 planes and revealing the buyer of another 45.

The new business is coming from FlyDubai, a start-up formed in March by the Dubai...

As expected, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the long-contested U.S. Air Force tanker contract will be re-bid, giving Boeing another shot at the $35 billion contract.

Gates said re-bidding the contract is...

Mike Feiner's course on leadership was one of the highlights of my year spent at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. It was a treat talking to him again recently, in connection with this month's profile on U.S. Navy...

Boeing share prices continued their decline on Monday, much to the chagrin of Puget Sound-area employees hoping for a bigger payout through a stock-based incentive program.

Shares of Boeing closed today at $65.72, down $1.20....

SEATTLE - Washington needs to invest more in workforce development and do a better job marketing itself - and more tax breaks wouldn't hurt either - aerospace industry leaders say.

A shortage of trained workers is "our biggest...

SEATTLE -- Boeing will have to juggle its orders book in the months ahead, as airlines hit hard by rising fuel prices seek to delay jet deliveries, while others who desperately want fuel-efficient planes try to get theirs sooner,...

In news guaranteed to increase sales of Bud Light and tequila across Everett this evening, the Government Accounting Office has upheld Boeing's protest of a Pentagon decision to buy $35 billion worth of Airbus tankers.

This...

SEATTLE - Washington Mutual will keep investing in its profitable retail banking business as it attempts to recover from its losses in mortgage lending, CEO Kerry Killinger said Wednesday.

"The retail channel is the...

I swung by my favorite south Everett watering hole, for the first time in a while. The regulars were quick to abuse me, saying that just because I work down in the city and have a girlfriend now, that's no excuse for not showing...

Everybody's favorite Seattle-based commuter airline - Horizon Air - is feeling the pinch. A combination of shrinking passenger counts and rising fuel costs is leading it to make cuts on a number of routes.

Horizon is pulling out...

Boeing is open to more deals like its recent purchase of half of problem-plagued 787 supplier Global Aeronautica

With 80 percent of its record orders backlog booked with overseas customers, the Boeing Co. should comfortably weather the current U.S. credit mess, CEO Jim McNerney said this morning.

"Right now, these developments aren't...

Boeing is reporting a 38-percent jump in first-quarter profits this morning.

The company reported net income of $1.2 billion for the quarter, compared to $877 million in the first quarter of last year.On a per-share basis,...

The Federal Reserve has just released its April Beige Book report, a collection of observations and reports from around the nation. We'll let CNBC worry about the nationwide outlook, and focus on what the 12th District board of...