Boeing workers are still on strike, but some help has arrived. Tuesday, Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers went back to the negotiating table joined by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,

Boeing will furlough its executives, managers and other white-collar employees one week of every four for the duration of a strike that union employees voted to authorize last week amid negotiations over pay and pension.

Nonunion employees will experience one-week furloughs every four weeks as the troubled planemaker struggles to conserve cash.

Boeing’s CEO says the company will begin furloughing a large number of employees to save cash during a strike by union machinists.

Boeing is temporarily furloughing executives and other nonunion workers to save cash during the strike by 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists, CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees in an email Wednesday.

The employees are now in their second week of striking with no sign of any deal with Boeing management on the horizon. We asked workers on the picket line outside a Boeing factory

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said Wednesday the planemaker will temporarily furlough numerous US executives and other employees after about 30,000 machinists went on strike Friday, halting production of its 737 MAX and other airplanes.

Boeing is suspending the jobs of tens of thousands of staff in the US in response to a strike that has shut down production of some of its airplanes. The aerospace giant said US-based executives, managers and staff would be asked to take one week of furlough every four weeks as long as the stand-off lasts.