Why Boeing factory workers are on strike

Thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists walked off the job Friday after union members voted to reject a tentative deal with the aircraft manufacturer. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans has the latest from Renton, Washington, where Boeing has a large facility.

[elmerkilred]

No change, no planes.
No pension, more tension.

[delta_cosmic]

1. MD totally ruined boeing
2. they cared too much on bean counting
3. all of the money went to the ceos

[jamesbambury]

What he did not give as context is that to get the 25% over 4 years they look away a bonus system that accounts for a significant % of the annual salary of some of these people so that 25% netted out closer to 9% over 4 years. Granted it was more certain and not linked to company performance. But how much can one of these works really affect performance anyway?

[thehoundGOT]

This is capitalism. Good luck to the machinists, I hope they get what they are asking for

[blahblah]

at least boeing isn't going to assassinate 33, 000 workers like they did with the whistleblowers.

[andyroach]

Greed in America is a problem. I don't think there is a middle class in America anymore.

[johnzapata]

They took away those yearly bonuses with that 25% “raise” though.

[wil]

suffered through 8% raises over the last 10 YEARS... WA COL is 45% national avg, home prices are up 229% since 2014, housing costs are up 65%... the 25% over 4yrs included us losing our yearly bonus it has averaged 3.7% per year. effectively lowering our raises to just 10.4% over those 4 years!! plus all the other changes that were less then desirable or were negatives.

[Seastarshineperson]

People start out at fast food wages and they have to wait 6 years to get full pay in that job. Some people build planes make 19 dollars an hour while working 19 days in a row 2 days off. There has to be better payand will draw more applicants to choose from and so we can train and keep people. Too many people are quitting due to low pay. Then the union tried to steal the yearly bonus by making us put it in a separate union owned 401k and deny new hires union representation for 60-90 days. Why a union would deny workers representation and steal their yearly bonus when the workers have already lost their pensions? The best and brightest engineers no longer work at Boeing. They are either underpaid or outsourced. Cutting engineering has caused crashes and starliner issues. If the Boeing employees keep quitting because morale is in the ground and pay is low improving quality is much tougher. This is why Boeing needs to invest in employees not stock buybacks and ceos.

[oakydoki]

The parental leave is a state law. Hahaha

[juanjoseguaringarcia]

You are missing a key point... spare parts and support to keep existing aircrafts flying.

That's even more impactfull than delivery delays.

[SellEveryThingForNow]

In the meantime, airbus has been signing contracts with major airlines that are looking for consistent and safer aircraft maker

[HollowProductions_]

Nobody I knew was happy with a 25% raise over 4 years. With the rate of inflation, we need a 40% raise over 3 years.

[ronaldheflen]

No pay raises for 14 years...what up with Boeing....what do a plane cost now..???

[TaoMovement.Health]

25% is really 10% when they take the yearly bonus away. And then losing 3% every year after 4 year contract. Why don’t you guys share the whole truth. A 15k bonus wouldn’t even justify the current contract.

Why do you guys never mention the yearly bonus loss?

[ElChivoJ]

It’s not really a 25% raise within the 4 year span.
If you actually look at the contract on what we had and what they want to get rid of and change isn’t good.
Every year we got a Ampp bonus that can be up to 6% every years. THEY WANT TO GET RID OF THAT IN GENERAL.
so if you subtract the average AMPP bonus we would get from that that 25% split into 4 years is really.
Year 1- 11% -3.5% that we would get on the previous contract would really be 7.5% on year one. So it looks like this.

Year 1- 11% - 3.5%AMPP= 7.5% wage increase
Year 2 - 4%-3.5% AMPP= .5% wage increase
Year 3- 4%-3.5% AMPP= .5% wage increase
Year 4 - 6%-3.5% AMPP= 2.5% wage increase
In total throughout contract it’s only a 11% wage increase

News really isn’t digging deep into this contract.

[Kim-mmel]

Go Go!! UNION all the way stay strong and fight❤️

[markstorm]

They gave 25% on surface but took away yearly bonuses, so the actual bonus is around 12%

[QuentinMoreno-ru]

A 25% raise over 4 years is terrible wtf cause they squeezed that margin out of something else so I’m sure it nets way lower than the face value by at least half

[StunnaShade]

The former CEO happily took home $32.7 million last year lol.. I’m sure they can pay these crucial workers