Source: US News & World Report
“A strike by more than 30,000 Boeing workers who build planes in factories on the U.S. west coast stretched into its fourth day on Monday, with company and union negotiators due to resume talks over a labor contract on Tuesday. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), Boeing’s largest union, last week overwhelmingly voted down a contract which included a 25% pay increase spread over four years, but removed an annual performance bonus. Union leaders will meet with federal mediators and Boeing to restart labor negotiations on Tuesday, the IAM said in a post on its X social media feed on Saturday. Jon Holden, the lead union negotiator, said on Saturday that workers wanted Boeing to increase its wage offer and reinstate a defined-benefit pension that was taken away a decade ago in return for keeping plane production in Washington State.” (09/16/24)