Investing.com -- Boeing is hiring around 100 to 140 factory workers per week, the highest pace since 2024, as the U.S. jetmaker replaces retirees and increases staffing to support higher production rates and new models, a union leader said.

Boeing's unionized factory workers in the Pacific Northwest now number more than 34,000 and are heading higher, Jon Holden told Reuters in his first interview as a vice president specializing in training and apprenticeships at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.