Boeing workers in the Seattle area voted 96 percent Thursday night in favor of a strike, halting production of the company’s best-selling plane at a time when Boeing is facing chronic production delays and increasing debts. The first strike by the company’s workers since 2008 will begin at midnight (local time, 10:00 Greek time), weeks after new CEO Kelly Ortberg took office in August to restore confidence in the company after a door had been detached in flight from a nearly new 737 MAX jet. About 30,000 workers who build Boeing’s 737 MAX and other jets in the Seattle and Portland areas were being asked to vote on their first full labor contract in 16 years. Under International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) rules, at least two-thirds of unionized workers had to […]
Source: News Beast
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