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Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strike (www.cnbc.com)
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  • More than 30,000 Boeing workers, members of the company's biggest unionized group, were set to strike Friday after staff rejected a new labor contract and approved a strike with a 96% vote.
  • The work stoppage will halt production of most of the company's aircraft, including its best-selling 737 Max.
  • The strike is another costly blow to the company trying to increase output and improve its reputation.
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well that won't go well for the quality of their products. Good, Boeing needs to go, too many lives have been lost to profits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why won’t it go well? It says it’s halting production, and once they get a good contract, morale would be higher which would probably result in better work being performed. Boeing needs to stay, considering how many commercial aircraft are Boeing aircraft, unless you want the air travel industry to collapse, and hundreds of thousands of workers be out of work. There just needs to be internal reform. I really hate the “burn everything” mentality Lemmings get when they don’t like something. Not everything is black and white

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not to mention how strategic of a company Boeing is to the US military complex. US government is 100% not going to let Boeing just fold. Not sure if Biden is going to bust the strike due to optics with the upcoming election, but I doubt the administration from either party is going to play nice with the union once the election is done, which is unfortunate and short sighted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Exactly. The problem is the executives and the corporate culture. You can’t just tear it down or nationalize it. Current material conditions prevent this rapid of transition.

Maybe it’s something to work towards, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's only about 17% of their workers going on strike. It's an issue, but it's not industry wide or gaining any solidarity strikes so far. It's not even Boeing wide. Imagine if UAW or something began even publicly DISCUSSING a solidarity strike. Actually doing it would probably weaken their position right now, but talking about it might add necessary leverage for the boeing workers.