More than 3,000 Boeing Defense Workers I started a strike on Monday.
Union members of Missouri and Illinois, which built F-15 fighters and other military aircraft, opposed the latest proposals, work schedules and pensions for the latest proposal of the company.
Dan Gillian, vice president of Boeing’s aircraft, said, “We were disappointed that employees refused to propose a 40%average wage growth.”
Boeing has been experiencing a series of problems since last year’s safety issues and a series of problems, including safety issues and almost eight weeks strikes by passenger airplane workers.
Strike It is led by the local branch of international mechanical and aerospace workers (IAM) headquartered in St. Lewis, where the BOEING Defense Manufacturing Hub is located.
“BOEING’s 3,200 skilled IAM union members are enough to start a strike at midnight. This is about respect and dignity, not an empty promise.”
IAM is one of the largest unions in the United States, representing about 600,000 members in the field of aerospace, defense, shipbuilding and manufacturing industries.
It is First strike in BOEING’s defense project, which has been suspended for more than three months since 1996.
But last week, Boeing’s Kelly ORTBERG chief executive ignored the potential influence of the strike.
He stressed that last year, it would be much smaller than the strike related to about 30,000 passenger jet workers, which cost billions of dollars last year.
ORTBERG said, “We will not worry too much about the meaning of the strike, and we will manage the way.
Boeing has been in recent years, including a series of crisis, including a dramatic mid -air explosion of deadly conflicts and airplanes.
In 2018, after the Boeing 737 took off from Jakarta, Indonesia, all 189 people died. A few months later, another 157 people died when the Boeing plane crashed immediately after takeoff in Ethiopia.
Separately in 2024, the panel equipped with the BOEING 737 max unused emergency exit was in the midst of flight.
The company delivered 348 aircraft to customers last year, which is the lowest output since the infectious disease.
