Daily Caller—
Thousands of Boeing factory workers went on strike shortly after midnight on Friday in another blow to the beleaguered airplane maker, which has spent months battling a wave of quality control crises, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) rejected a tentative agreement between Boeing and union leaders that would have established a 25% wage increase over four years, the WSJ reported. Roughly 94% of the union’s 33,000 members voted to reject the contract and 96% voted in favor of the strike — significantly more than the two-thirds majority needed for the work stoppage to move forward. read more
I’ve lived in Seattle since 1987. I can’t think of a year that the engineers or machinists at Boeing WEREN’T on strike. 🤷♀️
Go on strike with voting D and you just might make a difference.
If they support kamaltoe they will need waaaaaay more than a 25% pay increase and it will need monthly not yearly.
Illustr8r
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 20:11 at 8:11 pm
I was SPEEA, the engineers, just the one strike for us. Machinists pretty regularly with each contract, but not annually. Fire & Safety earlier this year if I recall.
Depending on just what the production problems are for new airplanes, it might be “beneficial” to Boeing to have a temporary labor disruption as gives them some late delivery penalty-free time.
Rumors I’ve heard is that there have been many months of long overtime days for factory workers, so a bit of down time for them too….
Company says X, union says Y. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
On the defense side of Boeing’s Biz, any contract let through the DLA(federal Government) over 1 mil requires a disaster recovery procedure. I wonder how they’re getting around that because the union prohibits them from taking parts outside. We have a couple such contracts. A fun QAP to write. Or are they exempt because they’re Boeing?
Well, if they’re out on strike, they’re not building planes that’ll get people killed, so there is that.
@Sippin
Really?!? Boeing seems to be in perpetual contract negotiations with their workers. Same with the teacher unions out here.
Boeings DEI hires and Socialist Union Bosses are biting them in their backside.
Boeings P̶r̶o̶b̶l̶e̶m̶s̶ Explode
Gee Wally, I’ll bet China is heartbroken!
To Boeing: switch to an industry where you’ll do less damage.
Like toys, balloons, plastic coffee stir sticks, combs and brushes, pet collars. Things like that.
Headline: Boeing workers strike, thousands of lives saved
Maybe they should have a look at how it went in Detroit back in the seventies.
It’s a Lot easier to fire people when bankruptcy is looming.