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Boeing employees for the 737, 747, 767 and 777 airplanes will return as early as Monday with most returning to work by Tuesday,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing is Spirit AeroSystem&#8217;s biggest customer, and the impact has rippled to its suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 2,100 workers, hourly and salaried, are scheduled to return to various production lines at the Spirit plant in Wichita on Monday, according to a union officials and numbers obtained by the newspaper. They\u2019ll be joined by another 200 workers on April 27; an additional 1,100 on April 29; and nearly 400 on May 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cornell Beard, president of Machinists District Lodge 70, said the returning union workers are still a fraction of the plant\u2019s full workforce, \u201cbut anything\u2019s better than nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coronavirus has exacerbated Boeing\u2019s crisis surrounding the 737 Max, which remains grounded after two deadly crashes. Boeing said Thursday its 737 program \u201c\u201dwill resume working toward restarting production&#8221;&#8221; of the 737 MAX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirit produces about 70 percent of the 737 Max, including the fuselage. 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