Boeing workers reject latest contract offer

The Boeing machinists union rejected the company's latest contract offer on Wednesday by 64%, the union president announced on Wednesday night.

“We have not achieved enough to meet our members demands," said Jon Holden, International Association of Machinists District 751 president. "We remain on strike."


The union strike has crippled Boeing's manufacturing lines and was thought to be coming to an end as machinists voted on the company's latest contract offer to get over 33,000 of their employees back to work.

Union members voted Wednesday.

In an internal message sent Thursday by Boeing Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Pope and obtained by KING 5, Pope said the company’s proposal had “unprecedented improvements” for Pacific Northwest production and maintenance employees.

“We are disappointed in the result of the vote,” Pope’s message, which was sent to employees in commercial airplanes in Washington and Oregon, reads.

Boeing machinists went on strike at midnight on Sept. 13 after time

[gregkisinger]

What Boeing should have done a long time ago is assess the impact of a union's demands for the ENTIRE COMPANY. Boeing has many unions to deal with and that's stressful and draining. It's also not a good way to maintain employee morale - give one group something and not another. Pensions are a thing of the past for many companies so to reinstate it for ALL employees would be financially crippling or a death nail. Boeing should be saying to the IAM now "If we reinstate pensions for all our employees it would cost this and we can't do that and we're not just giving it to you". Society would understand that, even if the IAM can't understand it, so public pressure would end this strike - no more horn honking at burn barrel corners.