Jim McNerney, Chairman, President and CEO of the Boeing company, speaks with journalists after the announcement of Emirates airline's purchase of the Boeing 777 aircraft in Dubai November 20, 2005. (Caren Firouz/Reuters) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) chief executive Jim McNerney is betting his career that the world's biggest-selling plane maker can survive a strike by its assembly workers and emerge stronger by holding firm on its right to outsource work on its aircraft. The decision to play hardball with the company's biggest union is a gamble for McNerney, 59, a star baseball pitcher at Yale, where he...
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