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Boeing (NYSE:BA) issued 60 day layoff notices Friday (because being fired on a Friday gives you the weekend to go get tanked) to 1,020 workers.

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The Boeing Company's (NYSE:BA) 787 Dreamliner lifted off just before 10:30 AM Pacific Time today near Seattle, nearly two and a half years after it was supposed to.  Boeing shares are trading flat at $55.58 today.

Matt Gettmann began working in finance at Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) last year, and it wasn't long before he found himself watching, stunned, as union members prepared for what became an eight-week strike. "There would be a parade of people, thousands and thousands of them, making noises and screaming" — right in the factory, Gettmann said. "That's the employee-employer relationship? It's shocking."

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) shares are off to the races today, up 9% and climbing to the $52 level after the company said the Dreamliner would take flight later this year. In the last 5 days Boeing shares are up 15%.

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) has hit yet another snag in its 787 Dreamliner program, now its the fuselage sections that will most likely delay the first test flight.

To follow the canceled and Hail Mary New Orders for Boeing's (NYSE:BA) Dreamliner requires an entire blog devoted to the subject. Boeing Company shares have been all over the place thanks to turbulent Dreamliner developments, since June 8th BA shares have lost 22% of their value. Have Boeing shares finally hit bottom?

Will Boeing (NYSE:BA) ever get the Dreamliner off the ground? Shareholders are pondering that question and sent shares down 6% after being disappointed yet again.

Got to love the business of lowered expectations, Boeing (NYSE:BA) lowered their 2009 guidance and their was cut in half, yet shares manage to move upward, go figure?