Boeing factory workers voted to reject the contract and continue the 6-week strike. “After 10 years of sacrifice, we still have a long way to go, and we hope to do that by quickly returning to negotiations,” Jon Holden, head of the IAM District 751 union, said in a statement Wednesday night. democracy. In the workplace – and also a clear proof that there are consequences when a company mistreats its employees year after year.”
A Boeing spokesman said officials had no comment on the vote.
The union’s situation comes during an already difficult year for Boeing, which became the focus of several federal investigations after a door panel came off a 737 Max plane during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
The strike deprived the company of much-needed cash to ship new planes to the airlines. On Wednesday, the company reported a third-quarter loss of more than $6 billion.
