Boeing workers vote on wage deal that could end strike
Boeing West Coast factory workers will hold a vote on an improved contract offer on Monday that could end a seven-week strike and restart jet production.
Boeing West Coast factory workers will hold a vote on an improved contract offer on Monday that could end a seven-week strike and restart jet production.
In a surprising move, The New York Times Tech Guild that represents hundreds of the giant newspaper’s tech staffers went on strike on Monday, just one day before Election Day.
Boeing recently announced a third-quarter loss of $6 billion following some 33,000 employees going on strike, as well as quality control issues which have crippled the struggling aviation corporation.
Spirit AeroSystems will tell employees that it will furlough 700 workers for 21 days as an over month-long strike at U.S. planemaker Boeing eats into the supplier’s cash and inventory space
Thousands of Boeing employees will be given their pink slips within the next few weeks, multiple union and industry sources claimed.
Talks between Boeing and its key manufacturing union broke down, and no negotiations are currently planned as the financially damaging strike heads into a fourth week.
U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports were reopened on Friday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century.
Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) have agreed to return to work for the time being.
At least 45 container vessels were anchored outside U.S. ports on Thursday as a massive strike by dockworkers stretching from Maine all the way to Texas entered its third day.