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The furor over Boeing's lost tanker deal has followed Sen. John McCain overseas.
A union representing 25,000 Boeing workers, including some who work at the company's manufacturing plant in Wichita where final tanker assembly would have been done, issued a press release timed to McCain's visit to France, home to EADS/Airbus, the firm that beat out the Chicago-based plane builder.
The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers accuses McCain of unfairly favoring a foreign firm for the contract, one of the biggest defense contracts in history.
It wants the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting to open his office files on the Boeing/EADS face-off and it questions why McCain asked for the removal of bid language that would have penalized EADS for receiving government subsidies.
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