Boeing offers bonuses to spur 787 catchup in Charleston

Boeing is offering a one-time bonus of 8 percent of a year’s pay to workers at the 787 Dreamliner plant in North Charleston, S.C., if they can fix the production problems there within the next few months. To reduce the deluge of work that has been flowing unfinished to Everett’s final-assembly plant, managers in Charleston also are reorganizing the myriad jobs involved in assembling the jet’s mid-fuselage, where the worst bottleneck is. (seattletimes.com) Mehr...