How big were those losses? If we subtract the $3 billion in charges for the 777X and 767 programs from the $4 billion total loss at the commercial airplanes division, this implies the strike cost Boeing $1 billion in Q3 from sales lost during the strike. This further implies that strike-related losses will cost Boeing another $2 billion in Q4.

Striking Boeing machinists started returning to work on Wednesday after voting for a new contract with substantial wage increases. The 33,000 Seattle-area machinists voted 59 percent to accept, just two weeks after two-thirds of them voted to reject a slightly worse contract.

Leaders of SEPTA’s largest employee union, Transport Workers Local 234, and the transit agency’s management agreed Thursday to keep negotiating even as the current contract was set to expire early Friday morning, postponing a strike that would have ...

SEPTA and the Transport Workers Union Local 234 will continue negotiations on a new contract after making progress at the bargaining table. Union workers opted not to strike Friday despite having previously authorized one.