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$10 credit coming to city’s WM customers By Reporter staff
Customers of Waste Management in Renton will receive a $10 credit on their bills for when garbage and recyclables weren’t collected during an employee strike last summer. A settlement totaling $237,000 was reached by the City of Renton and Waste Management and approved by the City Council on Jan. 14. Garbage and recyclables weren’t collected July 25-Aug. 1. Residential and commercialcart customers will see the $10 credit on their January statement, which should arrive in
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737 reaches record 38 a month Boeing is gearing up for yet another historic rate increase next year and the building of the MAX By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
About 40 days from now, Boeing will finish building the first Next Generation 737 that will lead off the historic production rate of 38 737s a month. The first step was taken Tuesday when Machinists began working on the wing spar of that first 737 at Boeing’s Renton plant. The spars are the internal sup-
The spars (yellow) of a 737 are assembled by an automated machine at Boeing’s Renton plant. dean a. radford, Renton Reporter
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ports for a plane’s wing. Next year, Boeing will ramp up 737 production to 42 planes a month, yet another record. “Thirty-eight is a new record for us and next year we go up to 42 and set another record in terms of the most single-aisle aircraft ever produced on a single production line,” said Beverly Wyse, vice president and general manager of the 737 program. But the 38-plane rate started when Machinists loaded the spars into an automated machine that assembles the spars. “The first spar load serves as the defining moment for our latest rate break, and the 737 team did it as planned, on schedule,” said Wyse. “We have more hard [ more 737 page 13 ]
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mailboxes in early February. Commercial customers using containers one yard and above will receive a $50 credit. This credit will be applied to active solid-waste accounts impacted by the strike. Customers in the Renton Allied Waste service area were unaffected by the Waste Management strike. “This service credit we negotiated with Waste Management is intended to compensate our customers who had their garbage or recyclables go uncollected during the strike in July 2012,” said Renton Mayor Denis Law. “We had a contract with Waste Management and the extended strike forced us to seek compensation when they didn’t fulfill their obligations with us during the strike. We are pleased to have settled this matter with Waste Management, and look forward to continued uninterrupted solidwaste services in Renton.”
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The 737 engines are mounted last at the final-assembly building at Boeing’s 737 production plant.