YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Regulators Come For Boeing and Co.
Following The Lever’s reporting, the companies behind a recent airliner accident could be facing a reckoning.
Transportation
Profits And Payouts Over Passenger Safety
For decades, Boeing chose shareholders and executives over workers and production quality — to the tune of $69 billion.
LEVER TIME: Amid Boeing Crisis, Is It Still Safe To Fly?
David Sirota and guests explore how the air travel industry — including manufacturers like Boeing — sacrificed quality for profit.
How Boeing Bought Washington
Before the recent Boeing disaster, the company and its parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems spent years lobbying to boost production and weaken safety regulations.
Boeing Supplier Ignored Warnings Of “Excessive Amount Of Defects,” Former Employees Allege
Weeks before Alaska Airlines’ terrifying debacle, one of the aircraft’s manufacturers was accused of systematically ignoring safety problems.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Southwest To Pay Up For Holiday Meltdown
Plus, the EPA introduces limits on the toxic gas in the East Palestine disaster, Starbucks has to reopen union-busted locations, and old trees get new safeguards.
Airline Unions Aim To Preserve Sky-High Credit Card Fees
To safeguard airline reward programs, some industry unions are splitting with their labor colleagues and teaming up with big banks.
Toxic Rail Sale
Cincinnati voters will soon decide on whether to sell their publicly owned railroad to Norfolk Southern, the corporation behind the East Palestine derailment disaster.
J.D. Vance Helped Lobbyists Weaken His Rail Safety Bill
The Ohio senator quietly delayed the timeline for safer tank cars that regulators say could help prevent train spills like the one in East Palestine.