SEATTLE-As Boeing debates whether to locate a second 787 assembly line in Everett, WA, or North Charleston, SC, company officials are negotiating with the Machinists union on a new contract with a no-strike clause. The company wants a no-strike clause for 10 years, possibly more, effectively precluding any strike until 2019 at the earliest. MORE

WINSTON-SALEM, NC-Dell Inc., which plans to close its assembly plant here, confirmed in writing to the city Thursday that it will pay back $26.5 million in local incentives used to lure the company to Forsyth County. MORE

DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co. is moving production of a small sport-utility-vehicle from Europe to the United States to take advantage of lower labor costs and the weaker dollar. MORE

RICHARDSON, TX-Solar array manufacture Skyline Solar has made a deal with auto-parts manufacturer Cosmo International to build its frames, racks and reflectors. MORE

CHICAGO-Boeing will reportedly decide within the next two weeks whether to put its second 787 Dreamliner assembly line in Everett, WA, or Charleston, SC. MORE

SHANGHAI-China's economy expanded a blistering 8.9 percent in the third quarter, fueled by lavish government stimulus spending. MORE

WASHINGTON-Fisker Automotive, a California startup manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, plans to announce shortly the location of a U.S. assembly plant where it will build plug-in electric vehicles. Henrik Fisker, the company's co-founder and chief executive, declined to elaborate on the site of the plant, but ruled out the Fremont, CA, location of New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., where Toyota plans to halt production in March 2010. MORE

TORONTO-A U.S.-based aircraft manufacturer is eyeing two sites in Canada for a new assembly plant that would create as many as 250 jobs over the next five years. The Dornier Seaplane Co. announced Monday that North Bay, Ontario, and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, are candidates to host a new assembly plant for the company’s Seastar aircraft, the world’s first all-composite seaplane. MORE

DETROIT-Batteries for electric vehicles will produced in large volumes and at competitive prices as early as 2015, according to a panel of industry analysts. MORE

SAN ANTONIO-Toyota Motor will add a second production shift at its pick-up truck assembly plant here by February next year, as inventories with the dealers have dried up. The addition of the shift will require 850 more workers at the plant. MORE