Boeing to Hire Replacements for Striking Defense Workers (1)

Boeing Co. plans to start hiring permanent replacements for some of the 3,200 hourly workers on strike at its St. Louis defense hub, escalating tensions with no break in sight for the one-month-old labor impasse.

The company plans to start posting openings for some of the manufacturing positions held by striking union members, and hold a job fair on Sept. 16, Dan Gillian, a Boeing vice president and the senior executive in St. Louis, said in a memo viewed by Bloomberg.

The move ratchets up the pressure on members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ...