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Ah, they say timing is everything, and I guess there’s no time better than when your company is on its knees, and a good part of the reason is *checks notes* it’s gotten a reputation for shoddy manufacturing practices.
By the way.who does the manufacturing at Boeing — the riveting, attaching panels, running wires, doors — or not — that sort of thing?
Why, I would have thought Boeing workers, but I guess they just don’t see it that way, because they have demands.
And they’re not coming back until Boeing does something about it.
.Boeing Machinists across the US West Coast stopped work at midnight on Friday. Hundreds of workers occupied picket lines at the Renton factory outside of Seattle that makes Boeing’s top-selling aircraft, the 737 Max.
Despite a contract Boeing touted as its most-generous ever, Machinists voted 94.6% to reject it, with 96% supporting a strike. Boeing’s offer didn’t compensate for 16 years of stagnated wages, higher out-of-pocket health care costs and the relocation of thousands of union jobs, said Jon Holden, president of IAM District 751, who added the union would get back to the table “as quickly as we can.”
“This has been a long time coming, our members spoke loud and clear tonight,” Holden said to a packed hall of union members and media. “Clearly there were aspects of this agreement that weren’t good enough.” By the time he’d finished speaking, the chants of “strike, strike” were deafening.
Seems like a shortsighted move to me, but I don’t work there, so what do I know?
I mean, HotAir waves two of these at me, and I’m hired for life.
Things must’ve been pretty bad at Boeing for employees to reject this.
You would’ve had me at 25%. pic.twitter.com/R1ArWhxv1Q— HTown jfp (@jfptalkin) September 13, 2024
The new Boeing president only has a couple of weeks on the thankless job under his belt — a good part of the problem being production delays and manufacturing flaws — and the last thing the company needed was these guys taking a hike.
BREAKING: @Boeing machinists vote to STRIKE, effective immediately.
