Posted on 09/13/2024 7:23:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Boeing factory workers went on strike early Friday morning after overwhelmingly rejecting a new union contract with the company.
Around 33,000 machinists went on strike shortly after midnight on the West Coast after the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union announced 94.6 percent of workers had voted to reject the proposal and 96 percent approved the stoppage.
The work stoppage puts financial strain on the storied airplane maker, which has been struggling to repair its reputation after the door plug of a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight in January, prompting regulatory action and congressional scrutiny.
Boeing President Kelly Ortberg, who took over the company early last month, sent a message to workers Wednesday urging them to accept the contract, which had included a 25 percent wage increase over the next four years.
“For Boeing, it is no secret that our business is in a difficult period, in part due to our own mistakes in the past,” Ortberg wrote.
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Remember Eastern Airlines
Boeing could solve their problems by giving all of their upper managment a pay cut and passing that money to the machinists.
Rodney Dangerfield, Eastern Airlines thanked me for flying United..
Machine work can be subcontracted.
They have been doing it for decades...........
What a coincidence, they go on strike on “National Blame Someone Else Day”
://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-blame-someone-else-day-first-friday-13
Based on what i have read in the News, they should all be fired.
Machinists aren’t Boeings problem.
It’s lack of quality control, maintenance and preventive maintenance IMO.
As far as striking goes, maybe it’s for valid reasons and maybe not.
I worked in non-union shops and unionized in the aviation industry and in my experience as a mechanic the union shops were a pain in ass......just my 2 cent.
Strikes and inflation go together like a horse and carriage.
Establishment economists are blissfully ignorant on this point.
So....um....it’s been 9 months now so exactly which International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Worker(s) forgot to put in the 4 bolts on the door plug and almost killed everyone ? Still waiting........ Yawn.....ZZZZzzzzzz.....
Wages are so far behind the productivity curve that any wage increase will not cause even a small blip in inflation.
Yeah ... that doesn't exactly build any sympathy for the machinists ...
To be very clear—I am not arguing that higher wages cause inflation.
What I am saying is that when there is inflation there will be more strikes—as workers try to keep up with inflation and employers are squeezed between all of their increasing costs and prices that customers will pay for their products.
Today we have far fewer unions in the private sector than we did fifty years ago—so the impact on price levels in the total economy is much less than it would have been at that time.
Airbus makes a decent airplane.
Things are not like in the past when Boeing was the top dog.
Perhaps Boeing should set up shop in say a new town off I-35 in Texas or I-5 in Washington so what Boeing can pay will go further.
Not to mention they want a 40% payvraise and turned down a 25% pay raise.
Good. They have been really awful employees and have led Boeing into a ditch. How stupid are the union leaders to strike against a company that has its back against the wall with huge losses from the MAX disaster and the Starliner disaster, the Alaska Air blowout, cancelled orders all over the place and no money coming in due to the employees running the company into the ditch?
Idiots. I guess the employees have a death wish.
Hire some people that will cross union lines that know what to do and are hard working, show up on time, aren’t on drugs and do their job.
Remember TWA?
If the strike lasts more than a couple of weeks, any wage increase will never cover the wages lost.
That sounds pretty good to me.
You Nailed It - Lack of responsibility/accountability for quality control.
Boeing subs out lots of work and at the same time abdicates its responsibility/accountability for that QUALITY to the Sub.
What could possibly go wrong? This must have been ANOTHER Ivy League MBA brilliant idea!!
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