Maybe they looked at their total bottom line and determined that unemployment insurance, strike compensation, foodstamps, welfare, Obamaphones, free government healthcare, union pensions, and other government handouts, all would add up to make it worthwhile not to work any more and just allow the 777 production to go elsewhere.
Union members are retarded.
Yesterday it sounds like the machinists made a counter offer to the original deal. Boeing rejected and made a counter counter offer, which they said was their final offer. It sounds like that offer was rejected by union leadership without a vote, even though it had guarantees of work in the Seattle area for 16 years. Sounds like it covered both 777-x and the 737 MAX.
Boeing needs to move that entire plant to SC, and close the plant down in the Seattle Socialist Enclave.
I have predicted before that Boeing will be leaving WA State completely. I remember when the economy was blowing up and these guys went on strike. I thought they were total idiots. During that time, the governor of WA was Christine Gregoire and she appeared on the picket line with the Boeing strikers. I read afterward that, that action really ticked off the Boeing management and they took their main offices and have relocated them in Chicago.
If you are Boeing, why put up with the shutting down of production lines, every few years, because of some union thugs? Go to a RTW state. And if they do, it will be because of the actions of the unions.
Let them make buses.
say buh-bye Seattle
Maybe they should ask the Union Hostess employees what to to next. Oh wait, they went out of business and eventually re-opened as a non-union company.