A mid-sized aerospace parts fabrication company, Orion Industries, is moving its 200-plus employee workforce from Federal Way to Auburn.
A mid-sized aerospace parts fabrication company, Orion Industries, is moving its 200-plus employee workforce from Federal Way to Auburn.
The City of Auburn has agreed to sell the company a site near the Auburn Airport for construction of a new, 100,000-square-foot building. Orion plans to bring 265 jobs to the South King County city.
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The union for Boeing’s technical workers is planning its next move after members rejected a contract offer, splitting with engineers represented by the same union who approved the deal.
WASHINGTON — While Boeing maintains that a fire in an electronics compartment of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner last week and another fire on a test flight in 2010 are not related, the plane’s fire-suppression system does not protect the site where both fires occurred.
Geography had little to do with establishing Western Washington as one of the world’s great centers for the commercial aerospace industry. The happy historical coincidences and accidents that put Bill Boeing and his interest in aviation here, instead of somewhere else, as well as the decisions, gambles and mistakes that made his namesake company a dominant player in the industry while others faded, were not a function of place the way that the forest-products industry grew up here because that’s where the trees were.
The message was clear and the room was full.
The union representing Boeing’s technical workers says it will make no recommendation when it asks members to vote this month on the company’s latest contract offer, which is identical to the one technical workers narrowly rejected Feb. 19.
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