Reuters
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Striking workers at Boeing Defense rejected the corporate’s latest contract offer on Friday, sending the stoppage towards its seventh week.
The roughly 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837 went on strike on August 4 after rejecting the corporate’s earlier provide.
The St. Louis-area workers assemble the corporate’s fighter jets and different army merchandise. Boeing has used non-union workers to restrict the results of the work stoppage.
“Our members in St. Louis have once again shown that they will not settle for Boeing’s half-measures,” IAM International President Brian Bryant mentioned in an announcement. “Boeing must start listening to its employees and come back to the table with a meaningful offer that respects the sacrifices and skill of these workers.”
The rejected provide included smaller will increase to retirement plan contributions and a smaller ratification bonus than these in a contract authorized final 12 months by IAM District 751 members who assemble Boeing’s business jets within the Northwest.
“We’re disappointed our employees have rejected a five-year offer, including 45% average wage growth,” Boeing Defense Vice President Dan Gillian mentioned in an announcement. “We’ve made clear the overall economic framework of our offer will not change, but we have consistently adjusted the offer based on employee and union feedback to better address their concerns.”
No additional talks are scheduled, and the corporate goes ahead with its plans to rent everlasting alternative workers, he mentioned.