‘We want what’s fair’: Boeing workers on strike in Washington take to the picket lines

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‘We want what’s fair’: Boeing workers on strike in Washington take to the picket lines

Standing on the picket line outside Boeing’s Everett plant on Friday, Phil Westburg said not much has improved for aircraft machinists in the Puget Sound region since 2008, the last time he and other members of his union walked off the job. “We’re paying more now for a doctor’s visit and we lost our pension,” said Westburg, who was among roughly 33,000 International Association of Machinists workers who went on strike after voting to reject a B…