(13 Sep 2024)
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Seattle – 12 September 2024
1. Machinist chanting strike
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Holden, President, International Association of Machinists, District 751:
"So tonight, our members voted across Puget Sound, Portland, Moses Lake, Victorville. Edwards Air Force Base and other remote locations. This is about respect. This is about addressing the past. And this is about fighting for our future. Our members rejected the contract by 94.6%."
3.Machinist cheering, holding signs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Holden, President, International Association of Machinists, District 751:
"And they voted to strike by 96%."
5. Machinist chanting after vote
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Neal (No Last Given), Boeing worker:
"I’m ecstatic that the numbers are as good as they are. It’s phenomenal that this many people got together and voted to reject a contract and voted to reaffirm the strike sanction."
7. Various of vote counting
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tara Hayes & Gina Forbush, Boeing workers:
Hayes: "We want our pension back and a 40% increase"
Forbush: "We’ve been working like dogs, long hours. Busting our ass at Boeing. And let me tell you Boeing is a good company, right? They’re a good company. But it has to work both ways. It can’t just one way. That’s right"
9. Ballot counting
STORYLINE:
Machinists at Boeing voted Thursday to go on strike, another setback for the giant aircraft maker whose reputation and finances have been battered and now faces a shutdown in production of its best-selling airline planes.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said its members rejected a contract that would have raised pay 25% over four years, then voted 94.6% to reject the contract and voted 96% to strike. A two-thirds vote among 33,000 workers was needed to strike.
“This is about respect, this is about the past, and this is about fighting for our future," IAM District 751 President Jon Holden said in announcing the vote.
Very little has gone right for Boeing this year, from a panel blowing out and leaving a gaping hole in one of its passenger jets in January to NASA leaving two astronauts in space rather sending them home on a problem-plagued Boeing spacecraft.
As long as the strike lasts, it will deprive Boeing of much-needed cash that it gets from delivering new planes to airlines. That will be another challenge for new CEO Kelly Ortberg, who six weeks ago was given the job of turning around a company that has lost more than $25 billion in the last six years and fallen behind European rival Airbus.
Ortberg warned machinists that a strike vote would put Boeing’s recovery in jeopardy and raise more doubt about the company in the eyes of its airline customers.
Workers were in no mood to listen.
Ortberg made a last-ditch effort to avert a strike, telling machinists Wednesday that “no one wins” in a walkout.
“For Boeing, it is no secret that our business is in a difficult period, in part due to our own mistakes in the past,” he said. “Working together, I know that we can get back on track, but a strike would put our shared recovery in jeopardy, further eroding trust with our customers and hurting our ability to determine our future together.”
Many union members have posted complaints about the deal all week on social media. On Thursday, several dozen blew whistles, banged drums and held up signs calling for a strike as they marched to a union hall near Boeing’s 737 Max plant in Renton, Washington.
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