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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/271937_boeingmcnerney29.html

As talks on a pay raise for 802 Boeing Co. engineers soured in November, union boss Charles Bofferding fired off an e-mail to Chief Executive Jim McNerney, who was five months into the task of righting the scandal-plagued plane maker. Did the negotiators' take-it-or-leave-it approach fit McNerney's vision for a new Boeing? Bofferding wanted to know.

Bofferding got his answer in days. When discussions resumed, he said he was startled by the change in tone. He recalled one negotiator saying, "I really want to hear what you have to say."