Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike in defeat for troubled company

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

SEATTLE — Tens of thousands of Boeing machinists voted overwhelmingly to walk off the job early Friday morning after rejecting a deal that would have significantly boosted pay and benefits even as it fell short of other union demands.

A shockingly large number of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751 (IAM) voted in favor of the strike, some 96 percent — far more than the two-thirds needed to launch the work stoppage.

“We strike at midnight,” IAM President Jon Holden told a room of machinists at the Seattle union hall. He was met with loud cheers and a chant of “STRIKE, STRIKE, STRIKE,” from the workers, many of whom carried strike signs.

The walkout is a stinging rebuke for Boeing and could represent the most disrupting challenge yet for a company that has spent much of this year in damage control as it careened from crisis to crisis.

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[maxsolomon]

1. The agreement was a 25% pay increase over 4 years.

They're demanding 40%.

A 10% increase per year is... a lot. Just sayin'.

[Angleae]

5. Considering it's been about 1% per year for over a decade, it's not that much.

And the pension went away too.

[maxsolomon]

7. I think they'll settle somewhere south of 40%.

If there was still a pension, there wouldn't be this fight.

[Angleae]

8. Don't be so sure of that, they want both, and they're highly pissed.

[Stargazer99]

2. I have very little empathy for Boeings-the CEOs brought this mess on this company

and I still would like an investigation into two whistle blowers who both said if it were said that they had committed suicide that it was not suicide. Both whistle blowers "committed suicide" within a couple of months of each other...it smells like a rat...coincidence? I rather doubt it. Most of you were not aware of the two whistleblowers and they sure hushed that up.

[maxsolomon]

3. What mess?

It's just a Machinist Union contract negotiation.

The "Boeings CEOs" had an agreement worked out with the Union reps, the rank and file rejected it. .

[Stargazer99]

4. I assume you are quite comfortable with 2 whistle blowers having "committed suicide" only 2 months apart

That figures business has been killing and maiming people for years with their lax safety procedures which costs profits so why care?
When 2 whistle blowers die by "suicide" with in months of each other and both stating if is reported they committed suicide it was not so I would at least investigate, but who cares right? All that matters is power and money

[maxsolomon]

6. The whistleblowers are not the topic of this OP

nt

[Stargazer99]

9. Trying to distract from the subject? I don't think the public is that dumb