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Boeing Defense plans to replace striking workers with new hires
Boeing is recruiting permanent replacements for 3,200 striking union members after contract talks stall; workers lost health insurance after nearly a month on strike.
- Approximately 3,200 unionized Boeing employees from Missouri and Illinois began a strike on August 4 at the company’s defense division located in St. Louis, marking the start of a nearly five-week labor action.
- The strike followed union members rejecting a contract on August 3 that offered a 20% wage increase over four years, faster progression, a $5,000 ratification bonus, and more leave.
- Boeing has maintained production on key military products but acknowledged some slowdown and began posting jobs and planning a job fair on September 16 to hire permanent replacement workers.
- Union leaders said workers remain firm on demands for better pay and benefits, while Boeing stated it will consider minor adjustments but not change the economic terms of its offer.
- Striking workers lost company-paid health insurance as of September 1 and plan to stay on picket lines until negotiations resume, with no date currently set to restart talks.
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In the face of negotiations between the machinists' union and their employer Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer decided to strike hard by recruiting 3,200 people. Hundreds of workers have been on strike for a month.
The U.S. aircraft manufacturer is toughening its strategy in the face of the deadlock in negotiations, at the risk of a social conflict that has a severe impact on the production of Pentagon and export aircraft.
Boeing to Start Hiring Replacements for Striking Factory Workers
Boeing Co. plans to start hiring permanent replacements for some of the 3,200 hourly workers on strike at its St. Louis defense hub, escalating tensions with no break in sight for the one-month-old labor impasse.
Boeing Plans to Hire Replacements for Striking Workers
Boeing said on Thursday that it planned to start hiring permanent replacements for workers who went on strike a month ago from three factories in and around St. Louis that make equipment for the military. About 3,200 workers who build fighter jets and advanced aircraft and weapons systems walked off the job on Aug. 4 after the company and their union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837, failed to ratif…
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