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Airbus staff set for industrial action (7 Days, 15th March, 2007)

Airbus unions have said that workers in France, Germany and Spain would strike tomorrow to protest the aircraft maker's plans to cut 10,000 jobs and spin off or close six European plants. The European Metalworkers' Federation said its member unions at all of Airbus' French and German plants would stop work, while in Spain 9,000 workers at Airbus' three factories and other sites owned by its parent company EADS would walk off the job for an hour.

It said there would be a mass demonstration in front of EADS headquarters in Paris and some 20,000 people were expected to join a large protest in the German port city of Hamburg, with smaller demonstrations outside Spanish production sites. Trade unions in supplier companies based in Belgium and the Netherlands would support Airbus workers by traveling to the protests in neighboring countries, it said.

MEANWHILE (via John Resnick):
Boeing Rolls Out First 787 Vertical Fin (PR Newswire, March 14, 2007)

Today Boeing (NYSE: BA - News) celebrated roll out of the first vertical fin for the company's all-new commercial airplane, the 787 Dreamliner. Manufactured and assembled at the Composite Manufacturing Center in Frederickson, Wash., the vertical fin is the largest primary structure of the 787 airframe built by an internal Boeing supplier. The delivery meets a key program milestone as the airplane begins final assembly in Everett, Wash., in preparation for its initial roll out in July.

Fins to the West...

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 14, 2007 5:20 PM