(22 Oct 2024)
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Everett, Washington – 22 October 2024
1. Various of picket line, with one machinist urging no vote
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bartley Stokes Sr., Boeing worker:
"I am disappointed with leadership on both sides. And, you know, we’ve been here a long time and and I feel that our negotiating team needs to be stronger and Boeing needs to keep listening to the floor. You know, we’re that we’re the ones that make it happen building the airplane. And they’re still not recognizing the fact that they wouldn’t be where they’re at or be receiving what they’re receiving if it weren’t for us down on the floor building the airplane."
3. Various of picket line
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bartley Stokes Sr., Boeing worker, on if the contract proposal is approved:
"It’s going to be a sad day, you know. And but, you know, but I got I got to give our new hires a lot of credit. They they had me afraid at first. But when I saw our numbers, when we first hit our strike sanction and when we voted down the contract, I was very impressed. And so I take my hat off to the new hires. They listen to the senior employees and I give them a lot of credit. And I’m hoping that they stay strong and keep listening to us, come out to the strike line and feel the energy that we have knowing that it’s not a good contract."
5. Various of picket line
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Best, Boeing worker:
"Well, I think we’re getting the same type of rhetoric from our union leadership, too, in trying to encourage everybody to, again, vote for a contract. That’s that’s not a good contract. Like I said, the general wage increase is pittance compared to what I feel we should be getting to meet inflation."
7. Various of picket line
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Best, Boeing worker:
"Again, the pension, they keep coming back and saying, you know, it’s going to be tough. It doesn’t look like we’re going to get our pension back. Instead of saying, Yeah, we’re going to get our pension back. Now is the prime opportunity in a prime time to get our pension back. And we all need to stay out and dig our heels in whatever we need to do. There’s all kinds of jobs outside. There’s all kinds of resources that we have on the on the union websites and whatever to get jobs to get us through this."
9. Various of picket line
STORYLINE:
On the eve of second contract vote, union machinists picketed outside Boeing’s Everett factory, with some strongly encouraging a no vote.
The latest proposal will be voted by the 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union. The results are expected Wednesday evening.
They will vote at union halls in the Seattle area and elsewhere on a Boeing offer that includes pay raises of 35% over four years, $7,000 ratification bonuses, and the retention of performance bonuses that Boeing wanted to eliminate.
But for some, not bringing back a pension is a deal breaker.
"Now is the prime opportunity in a prime time to get our pension back. And we all need to stay out and dig our heels in whatever we need to do," said Larry Best, a customer quality coordinator who has been with Boeing 38 years.
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