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Business > Foreign Business
Boeing workers vote to strike
By Agence France-Presse
Sep 14, 2024 12:16 am

SEATTLE — Thousands of Boeing factory workers in the United States overwhelmingly voted on Thursday to strike, spurning a contract that the embattled aviation giant characterized as a boon for manufacturing staff given the company's stressed financial condition.

Hourly workers in the Seattle region rejected the contract with a vote of 94.6 percent and to strike with 96 percent, said Jon Holden, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 751.

WALKOUT Boeing workers in the Seattle region on Sept. 12, 2024 overwhelmingly voted to strike as they rejected a contract the workers considered not so generous to them. AFP PHOTO

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