Workers picket outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg

Retirement plans are a major sticking point between Boeing and its union workers, now in the seventh week of a strike. The striking machinists want the world's largest aerospace manufacturer to bring back the traditional pension plan Boeing ditched a decade ago, as part of a deal with machinists to build its 777 jetliner in Washington.

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