Over 30,000 Boeing workers, members of the company's largest union, are poised to strike Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a new labor contract. The strike will halt production of most aircraft, including the popular 737 Max.
More than 30,000 Boeing workers, members of the company's biggest unionized group, were set to strike Friday after staff rejected a new labor contract and approved a strike with a 96% vote.
"We strike at midnight," said IAM District 751 President Jon Holden at a press conference where he announced the vote's results. He characterized it as an "unfair labor practice strike," alleging that factory workers had experienced "discriminatory conduct, coercive questioning, unlawful surveillance and we had unlawful promise of benefits.
Under the tentative agreement, Boeing had promised to build its next commercial jet in the Seattle area, a bid to win over workers after the company moved the 787 Dreamliner production to a non-union factory in South Carolina.
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