US EditionBoeing 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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More than 3,000 workers in its defence branch have been out of work for a month in factories in the Saint-Louis area of the United States Midwest. Unionized workers, who manufacture, among other things, fighter planes and drones, are asking for wage increases and have refused the last offer from the management.
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.
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