OTHER NEWS - Aug. 10, 1996

Boeing Workers Offer to End Strike: The Canadian Auto Workers Union said it offered to meet with Seattle-based Boeing Co. in an effort to end a monthlong strike that has the world’s largest maker of commercial jets racing to avoid parts shortages. Union members at Boeing’s plant in Winnipeg account for only 870 of the company’s 107,000 employees worldwide, but the 2,500 parts they make are critical to keeping production running. Boeing is taking extraordinary steps to avoid shortages. CAW leaders asked to meet with Boeing officials “to try and break this logjam,” said Peter Kennedy, a union spokesman. Boeing executives told the union they plan to hold an internal meeting Monday to “discuss their options,” Kennedy said.