Boeing is hiring between 100 and 140 factory workers each week – the highest pace ?since 2024 – as it replaces retirees and increases staffing to support higher production rates. The U.S. planemaker’s unionized factory workers in the Pacific Northwest now number more than 34,000 and are “heading higher,” Jon Holden told Reuters in his first interview as a vice president specializing in training and ?apprenticeships at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

