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Boeing, Striking Union Keep Meeting, Talking; Mediator Optimistic.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2000 by Maharry, Mike
Feb. 25--Negotiators for Boeing and the company's striking engineers and technical workers met with a federal mediator Thursday and agreed to meet again today.
C. Richard Barnes, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, said there were "no breakthroughs" reached Thursday afternoon, but he expressed optimism that the two sides were willing to keep meeting.
"We made some progress in relationship-building today," Barnes said.
The strike by between 17,000 and 19,000 Boeing workers represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace entered its 17th day today.
Barnes, the government's chief mediator, persuaded SPEEA leaders to delay calling a strike earlier this month and instead give him a...
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