17 Sep 2024

Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 17 September 2024
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - MARCH 25: The exterior of the Boeing Company headquarters is seen on March 25, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced he intends to leave the company by the end of the year in the wake of ongoing safety concerns with the company's jetliners. Boeing’s chairman Larry Kellner and the head of the commercial airplane unit, Stan Deal, are also exiting.   Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Photo: KEVIN DIETSCH

The NZ Super Fund has hit an all-time high and was valued at $76.6 billion for the year to June 30, an increase of $11.2 billion on the prior financial year.

More than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers - who produce Boeing's 737 MAX and other jets in Seattle, have taken strike action after overwhelmingly voting down a new contract.

And still in the US, a National Labor Relations Board, Administrative Law Judge, has ordered Starbucks to reopen within a reasonable period of time at two locations that had hat closed after employees formed a union.

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