SEATTLE (Reuters) -Boeing's financial and production challenges following a January mid-air panel blowout will not change its workers' readiness to strike to make gains in bargaining, a union local president said on Thursday. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), which represents more than 30,000 Washington state workers building Boeing jets, wants better retirement benefits and wage increases...

(Adds comment from Swedish minister in paragraphs 30-31) By Eric Onstad LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - Four decades ago, a rare earth processing plant on France's Atlantic coast was one of the largest in the world, churning out materials used to make colour televisions, arc lights and camera lenses. Its current owner Solvay is racing to return the plant at...

11:26 AM EDT, 06/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Rio Tinto (RIO) said Friday it will install carbon free aluminium smelting cells at its Arvida smelter in Quebec, Canada, using a technology license from its Elysis joint venture with Alcoa. The company said it will build a demonstration plant that will be owned by a new JV in which Rio Tinto and...

11:24 AM EDT, 06/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Verint Systems ( VRNT ) said Friday it has signed a $6.5 million multiyear contract with an unnamed public utility company to implement the Verint Open Platform in its 1,800-agent contact center. The contract includes delivery of four Verint ( VRNT ) artificial intelligence bots, the company said. Shares of Verint ( VRNT...