Boeing employees are still without a new union contract as the workers strike stretches into its third week.
Union machinists and supporters wave picket signs in Everett, Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, near a Boeing factory. The machinists’ union negotiation team and Boeing representatives were in federal mediation Friday, but so far no new contract has been put forth to union members for a vote.
Jeremy Kim works as an interior mechanic for Boeing but has been off the job for more than two weeks now as the machinists’ union and Boeing “I’m getting paid less than a McDonald’s employee,” Kim said. “For my job starting wage is $18 an hour, I can’t live off that with rent, food, gas.” “For building an airplane where people's lives can be potentially at risk, I should be getting the pay for what I'm doing, what I'm building,” Kim added. “If they want the quality that they want and the speed that they want it, we should be paid for that.” Boeing employees on strike are getting support from other local unions like the Everett Education Association and the UNISERV Council, who had representatives out on the picket line Friday alongside the machinists’ union. “We're out here to support the machinists because they very much impact our community in so many positive ways,” Jared Kink, president of the Everett Education Association, said. “Them having a good contract helps our economy and helps kids be more successful in school if their parents are getting paid a decent wage that they deserve.”“They're not getting the deal that's fair for them, that affects their lives every single day and that affects their families,” Justin Fox-Bailey, UNISERV Council President, said. “We want to make sure that workers are getting their share, their families, they're doing this for their families.” As both sides were in federal mediation to try and hammer out a new deal, U.S. Representatives Rick Larsen and Suzan DelBene who represent this region met with workers on strike. “I think it was telling that when the other offer came out, last of us offer came out every day, that the workers didn't even bring it to a vote because they knew it wouldn't pass, and so I think they're negotiating for a position of strength,” U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen said. “There's just long-simmering tensions that go back beyond the last couple of years, maybe even 10 to 12, 15 years, and the company I think needs to recognize that and recognize that through whatever the result of the contract is.”Economists estimate the strike has cost Boeing workers and shareholders over a billion dollars in just two weeks with no end in sight so far. “They are the backbone of the company, the backbone of our community,” U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene said. “It's critically important that we have a contract that's fair, that the workers deserve and that builds going to be strong long into the future.”
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