2024-10-24 03:29:00
On Wednesday evening, almost two-thirds (64%) of members of the local branch of the Union of Machinists (IAM) spoke out against the project.
Boeing workers in America’s Seattle region on Wednesday largely rejected the plane maker’s latest draft social agreement and renewed a strike that has paralyzed two crucial factories since mid-September, a union said.
Almost two thirds (64%) of the members of the local branch of the Union of Train Drivers (IAM) spoke out against the project, the IAM announced on the social network four years ago but without restoring the pension system abolished in 2008, demanded by many employees.
Around 33,000 workers around Seattle, in the north-west of the United States, where Boeing was born in July 1916, have been on strike since September 13 in the group’s two main factories, which produce the 737 (its best-selling plane, the 777 ). , the 767 and several military programs. This strike was voted following the rejection of a draft company agreement presented on 8 September and deemed insufficient.
A net loss of $6.17 billion
The IAM has asked for a 40% salary increase to compensate for the lag of salaries compared to inflation in recent years, not allowing employees, they explain, to be able to live adequately in this region, one of the most expensive in the United States. “After 10 years of sacrifices we still have reasons to recover” this delay, said Jon Holden, president of the local IAM-District 751 branch, saying he hopes so “resume negotiations quickly”. This decision is an example of this “Democracy in the workplace, but also clear evidence that there are consequences when a company mistreats its employees year after year”he added.
The extension of the strike comes after Boeing posted its worst quarterly loss in four years on Wednesday, amid repeated accidents and incidents affecting its planes. The company announced a net loss of $6.17 billion, weighed down by heavy charges of $5 billion in its Commercial Aviation (BCA) and Defense and Space (BDS) subsidiaries that it inaugurated on October 12. Factset analysts’ consensus was for $6.12 billion in losses.
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