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CHICAGO-Boeing Co. is pushing back the date of delivery for its first model 787 aircraft by another six months, to the third-quarter of 2009, once again citing problems with the program’s complex supply chain and other issues. MORE

DETROIT-Plant-level labor talks have dragged in the wake of last year’s sweeping pact between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union, with the result that almost no local contracts have been resolved. MORE

MOSCOW-Deere & Company will invest approximately $80 million in a new central operations center about 38 miles southwest of Moscow. MORE

BIRMINGHAM, AL-Alabama cracked the top five among the nation's vehicle-producing states in 2007, as its three automotive assembly plants rolled out some 739,000 sport utilities, crossovers, minivans and sedans. MORE

DETROIT-Full bargaining teams for the United Auto Workers and American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. are talking for the first time in nearly a month, as the strike against the auto parts supplier enters its sixth week. MORE

COLUMBUS, OH-The Ohio Department of Development is opening a business office in China’s capitol in the hope of expanding imports to the country. MORE

CHICAGO-Boeing once built massive fleets of World War II and Cold War military planes. But right now, the world's biggest airplane builder can't boast even a single prime contract to supply the U.S. military's next generation of fighters, bombers, tankers and transport planes. MORE

HANOI, Vietnam-Workers have returned to a Vietnamese Nike shoe factory one week after a strike over a wage dispute closed the plant. MORE

FORT WORTH, TX-United Auto Workers union officials have notified the management of the General Motors Arlington truck-assembly plant that they are prepared to strike unless an agreement is reached soon on a new local contract. MORE

CLEVELAND, NC-Freightliner plans to lay off about 1,500 workers at its Rowan County truck plant-more than half the plant's work force-in early June. MORE