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Boeing Worker Strike Halts Production of Best-Selling Jets

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Sept. 13. Thousands of Boeing machinists have walked off the job after voting to reject a new labor deal, dealing a financial blow to the struggling aerospace giant. Plus, Donald Trump’s allies draw up plans to privatize mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And, as Russia makes more slow gains on the battlefields of Ukraine, the WSJ’s James Marson reports that Kyiv’s Western partners are pressing it to think about a plan B for the war. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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More turbulence for Boeing as a strike halved production of its most popular planes.

0:24.0

Plus Donald Trump's allies draw plans to privatize mortgage giants Fanny and Freddie,

0:30.0

and as Russia makes more slow gains on the battlefields of Ukraine, Kyiv's Western partners

0:37.2

press it to think about a plan B for the war.

0:40.2

So what we're seeing now is, what would be more realistic goals?

0:43.6

How can we give Ukraine the best possibility on the battlefield,

0:47.2

but also to put Ukraine in the strongest possible negotiating position

0:51.2

if we ever get to the stage of some kind of talks on a ceasefire, some

0:55.3

kind of peace deal.

0:56.6

It's Friday, September 13th.

0:58.7

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News? The top headlines and business

1:05.2

stories moving your world today.

1:11.3

Workers at Boeing's biggest labor union have overwhelmingly voted to strike, rejecting

1:16.6

a contract that offered 25% wage increases over four years.

1:22.4

Thousands of machinists walked off the job shortly after midnight

1:25.5

Pacific time halting production of the struggling plane makers best-selling jets. Journal

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