Boeing, union at strike impasse as company halts talks, withdraws pay offer

The nearly four-week-old strike between Boeing and its key manufacturing union showed no signs of a breakthrough after talks broke down on Tuesday, with no new negotiations planned.The planemaker withdrew its pay offer to around 33,000 US factory workers, saying the union did not consider its proposals seriously after two days of talks.The breakdown compounds financial and production problems at Boeing, one of the two primary global commercial planemakers, and adds to a years-long backlog of deliveries to a ...