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- Reuters
Union offering Boeing representatives training on U.S. whistleblower laws
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) will hold sessions on Friday for shop stewards at Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems after receiving queries from members on how to become whistleblowers, a union director told Reuters. Testimony at a U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in April raised questions over Boeing's treatment of whistleblowers. A Boeing engineer said at the hearing he was told to "shut up" and removed from a plane program when he flagged safety concerns.
- Associated Press Finance
Key Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems is laying off 450 after production of troubled 737s slows
A key Boeing supplier that makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max airplanes is laying off about 450 workers because production has slowed down ever since a panel flew off one of those airplanes operated by Alaska Airlines in midair in January. A spokesman for Spirit AeroSystems confirmed the layoffs at its Wichita, Kansas, plant on Thursday that would trim its workforce of just over 13,000 people. Spirit is Boeing's most important supplier on the 737s because it makes fuselages and installs door plugs like the one that flew off the plane.
- The Telegraph
Boeing supplier cuts 450 jobs after losses fuelled by 737 blowout
A major Boeing supplier is to make up to 450 workers redundant after its biggest customer was forced to cut aeroplane production.
