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SEATTLE (AP) - The head of Boeing Co.'s commercial airplane operations says the company and the Machinists Union were $1 billion apart when more than 18,000 workers hit the picket lines Sept. 2, according to an internal memo to company executives.
"When union negotiators say the two sides were 'miles apart,' they are correct," Alan R. Mulally said in the e-mail released Thursday evening to The Associated Press.
Airplane assembly workers at Boeing Co. commercial airplane plants in the Puget Sound area, Gresham, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. are on strike. The e-mail, dated Thursday, appeared to have been sent to all Boeing managers at those sites.
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