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Thu Jul 18, 2024, 11:38 AM Jul 2024

Boeing workers signal support for strike if contract talks fail


Boeing machinists on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to sanction a strike should the company fail to reach an agreement with their union during their first full contract negotiations in 16 years.

District 751 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents more than 30,000 of the plane manufacturing company’s Washington employees, is asking for a 40% raise for workers over the next three years.

“We will be the highest compensated aerospace workers in the entire world,” Brian Bryant, the union’s international president, told machinists gathered for the strike sanction vote at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. “We won’t accept anything less.”

The union’s lowest paid workers start at $15.74 an hour and max out at $23.74; the union’s highest paid workers start at $26 an hour and max out at $51.44 an hour. Pay scales are slightly higher for late day and overnight shifts.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/07/17/boeing-workers-signal-support-for-strike-if-contract-talks-fail/
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