“Enough enough is enough”, thousands of workers at three Boeing The production facilities went on strike overnight overnight overnight To end a separate 53-day strike Out of 33,000 aircraft workers.
Around 3,200 workers in Boeing facilities in St. Louis on Monday; St. Charles, Missouri; And Mascoutah, Illinois, voted to reject a modified four -year work agreement with Boeing, the international association of machine operators and Aerospace Workers Union announced on Sunday.
In a post on XThe union said: “3,200 highly qualified IAM union members at Boeing were hit in strike at midnight because enough is enough.”
The vote followed the members’ Rejection of the last week of a previous proposal From the troubled air and space giants, which over four years included a wage increase of 20%.
“The members of the district 837 build the aircraft and the defense systems that bring our country to safety,” said Sam Cicinelli, Vice President of the Union in the Middle West. “They earn nothing less than a contract that keeps their families safely and recognizes their incomparable expertise.”
The union members rejected the latest proposal after a weekly cooling period.
Boeing warned over the weekend that it was expecting the strike after the workers rejected The most recent offer, which included a wage increase of 20% over four years.
“We have disappointed that our employees rejected an offer that is worth 40% and has solved their main problem with alternative work plans,” said Dan Gillian, Vice President and General Manager of Boeing Air Dominance and senior employee from St. Louis. “We are prepared for a strike and have fully implemented our emergency plan to ensure that our non -strict workers can continue to support our customers.”
Boeing had been Battles after Two of his Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashedOne in Indonesia in 2018 and the other in Ethiopia in 2019 and killed 346 people. In June one of Boeing’s Dreamliner aircraft operated by Air India crashedkill at least 260 people.
Last week Boeing reported that it was Income in the second quarter Had improved and the losses had narrowed. The company lost $ 611 million in the second quarter compared to a loss of 1.44 billion US dollars in the same period of the previous year.
Boeing Co.’s shares slid back less than 1% in front of the opening bell on Monday.
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