State of the unions

Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Associated Press reporter Roxanna Hegeman took stock of the way unions fared during Boeing’s sale of its former Wichita commercial jet operations to Onex of Canada.

Key Quote: “Onex’s aerospace subsidiary, recently renamed Spirit Aerosystems Inc., won pay and benefit cuts from its biggest union, the International Association of Machinists … as well as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. SPEEA, its second-largest union, also approved benefit cuts coupled with wage increases for its two negotiating units.”

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