The move undercuts boosters' efforts to change the narrative that downtown is improving and hasn't been abandoned by the business community. The strike at Boeing’s St. Louis-area factories is the first since 1996, when workers at what was then homegrown McDonnell Douglas walked out …

Striking workers at Boeing Defense's (BA.N) St. Louis-area facilities voted to approve the company's latest contract offer on Thursday, union officials said, ending a 101-day strike that has hampered ...