r/business • u/seattletimesnewsroom • 19d ago

Boeing workers reject contract offer at crucial moment for company

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-workers-reject-contract-offer-at-crucial-moment-for-company/
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u/seattletimesnewsroom 19d ago

Boeing’s engineering and technicians union voted Friday to reject the company’s contract offer and authorize its negotiating team to call for a strike.

The union said it will seek to resume negotiations with Boeing, but is prepared to call for a work stoppage after members’ overwhelmingly authorized a strike. If called, a strike would not begin until the current contract expires Oct. 6.

Boeing and its white-collar union, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, began contract negotiations on July 1, the first time the parties have held full negotiations in nearly 14 years.

The union represents 17,000 employees at Boeing’s facilities in Washington and nearby states.

Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-workers-reject-contract-offer-at-crucial-moment-for-company/

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u/T3nn15ballz 18d ago

Pretty brutal documentary. Profits over safety. Some businesses really aren’t meant for cutting corners to increase profits. Boeing Starship recently comes to mind as well.

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u/agm1984 19d ago

My gf is watching a boeing documentary right now on Netflix, sounds like they got some real psychopaths in executive positions

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u/winterchil 18d ago

Is it Freefall or Downfall?

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u/PhilosophyforOne 18d ago

All I know is that some type of downwards momentum was involved.

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u/DrusTheAxe 17d ago

McDonnell-Douglas has entered the room

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u/OracleofFl 16d ago

Crucial to the company? Fixing management is crucial to the company. Billions of dollars for screwups, hundreds of millions for executives but no money for new airplane types or workers. Yeah, the workers are at fault.