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Boeing 2024 Proxy Statement: Executive Compensation includes retirement gifts for Calhoun, Deal; housing support for Ortberg, Pope, and other stuff
Subscription Required By Karl Sinclair March 17, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing’s top executives on average earn 81 times more money than the average company employee, the 2024 Proxy Statement reveals. And in addition to the usual perks… Read More
Ortberg, SPEEA meet; union surveys members for contract negotiations, strike
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg (left) and SPEEA president John Dimas. Credit: SPEEA. Feb. 27, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg met with the company’s engineers and technicians union, SPEEA, on Feb…. Read More
Boeing sees achieving pre-MAX grounding production rates 8 years later
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 30, 2025, © Leeham News: When Airbus began to record more orders than Boeing in the early 2000 decade, Boeing’s CEO dismissed the shift. Orders didn’t matter, sniffed Phil Condit. Only deliveries… Read More
Ortberg sees path with FAA for returning to full rate 737 production
By Karl Sinclair Jan. 28, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing’s CEO Kelly Ortberg, now five months into his job, painted an encouraging picture of the company’s path to recovery in an appearance on the financial news network CNBC… Read More
Boeing strike post mortem: Ortberg has work to do
Teamsters contract expires in April 2025. IAM’s contract with Boeing’s defense unit follows in July. SPEEA engineering contract negotiations come up, too. Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Analysis Nov. 15, 2024, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO… Read More
Ortberg taps Mulally, Conner about Boeing’s recovery
By Scott Hamilton Nov. 8, 2024, © Leeham News: When Kelly Ortberg assumed the chief executive’s slot at the ailing Boeing Co., he knew the company well as an outsider. Ortberg had been CEO of Rockwell Collins, a… Read More
Boeing’s 12-Step process to recovery
Subscription Required By Karl Sinclair Nov. 5, 2024, © Leeham News: When Kelly Ortberg became CEO of The Boeing Co. on Aug. 8, the company was mired in a multitude of crises. The most immediate was the open… Read More
Where and who will be laid off in Boeing reset?
By Scott Hamilton Oct. 14, 2024, © Leeham News: As Boeing prepares to lay off about 10% of its workforce of 170,000 employees, the key question remains unanswered: Who and where will the layoffs come from? Boeing didn’t… Read More
Pontifications: Boeing needs massive reset, and not just with labor
Subscription Required Now open to all readers. CEO Kelly Ortberg’s “reset” plan is long overdue. But Boeing needs to do better for the IAM members, and the members need to give up on the defined pension plan. Oct…. Read More