Boeing factory workers have rejected the company’s recent contract proposal and will continue the strike that has lasted six weeks, devastating the aerospace manufacturing giant.
Sixty-four percent of frontline International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) members voted against accepting Boeing’s latest contract offer.
“After 10 years of sacrifices, we still have ground to make up, and we’re hopeful to do so by resuming negotiations promptly,” said Jon Holden, president of IAM District 751, and Brandon Bryant, president of IAM District W24, in a joint statement.
“Workers across America know what it’s like for a company to take and take—and Boeing workers are saying they are fully and strongly committed to balancing that out by winning back more of what was taken from them by the company for more than a decade.”…