Business & Tech
Boeing News: Nov. 26-Dec. 2
This week's headlines include company thoughts on sequestration, deals with unions and debuts of the 787 around the world.
- Sequestration woes: Boeing hopes defense cuts would spare tanker (Businessweek)
- Union issues: Boeing proposes mediation in talks with engineers union (Reuters) and Boeing engineers union likely to back mediation talks (Reuters)
- Gay rights: Employee petitions Boeing on pension benefits for married gay workers (Seattle Times)
- Late night TV mention: Colbert lauds Boeing's 'refreshing denial of human dignity' (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
- 787 news: Boeing's Dreamliner makes stop in Denver (Fox 31 KDVR.com), New Boeing 787 Dreamliner gets its close-up at LAX (Examiner.com), Dreamliner glitch: Air India summons Boeing team (Hindustan Times), Boeing: more work needed before launch of stretch 787 (Reuters), Qatar Airways Boeing 787 commercial service takes off to Kuwait (Al-Bawaba), On Boeing's Dreamliner, toilets are such a crowd-pleaser (NDTV), LOT Polish Airlines Receives First Boeing 787 Dreamliner (NYCAviationTV)
- Airbus v. Boeing ad war: The Increasingly Nasty Rivalry of Boeing Vs. Airbus (Bloomberg)
- The next generation: Pattonville Students Learn About Engineering During Boeing Trip (Maryland Heights, MO, Patch)
- Pop culture: Painting Air New Zealand's 'The Hobbit' Boeing 777 (NYCAviationTV)
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