"Our members deserve more. They've spoken loudly, and we're going to go back to the table to try to achieve those things."
The strike by 33,000 workers at Boeing will continue after rank-and-file union members rejected an offer from the company in a vote yesterday and decided to remain on the picket lines instead.
It would also have paid them a $7000 signing bonus, increased contributions to union members' retirement accounts and provided some job security, with the promise that the company's next commercial jet would be built at a unionised factory rather than a new, non-union plant.
"There are some deep wounds that were out of some takeaways and concessions, threats of job loss. Our members haven't forgotten that." Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, said earlier yesterday that the company is at a crossroads and needs a fundamental change in its culture to stabilise its business."First and foremost on everybody's mind today is ending the IAM strike," Ortberg told investors in a call after the earnings report.
It was then hit by cancelled orders for new planes in 2020 when the pandemic caused a sharp plunge in demand for travel and massive losses at the world's airlines.Although no one was seriously injured, the incident sparked numerous federal investigations and questions about the quality and safety of Boeing jets.
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