Workers voted overwhelmingly to reject wage proposal from aviation giant last week
and striking US factory workers will resume on Tuesday under a federal mediator, the union said, after workers voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from the embattled aviation giant.
Union leaders called for the walkout shortly after hourly workers in the Seattle region in the Pacific north-west spurned the tentative contract offer with 94.6% of the vote, and voted to strike with 96%.Federal mediators had said on Friday evening the talks would resume early next week but did not specify a date.
It added: “Let our presence on the picket lines echo across the country and beyond. We are stronger than ever before, and we won’t back down.”
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