Boeing defence workers go on strike in new blow to aviation giant

More than three thousand Boeing defense workers The strike went on Monday, in a new blow to the besieged aviation giant.

This comes after the members of the Federation voted in operations in Missouri and Ilinoi, who built F-15 combat aircraft and other military aircraft, against the company’s last wages, and work schedules and pensions.

“We were disappointed by our employees, rejecting a 40 % wage growth,” said Dan Jillian, a deputy head of the Boeing Air Hegemony Unit in Boeing, in a statement.

Boeing is struggling to turn herself after a series of problems, including safety and harms issues Seven weeks By passenger plane workers last year.

Withdrawal It is led by a local branch of the International Association of Mechanics and Space Workers (IAM) based in St. Louis, where there is a Boeing Center for the Defense of Manufacturing.

“The members spoke loudly and clearly, they deserve a contract that reflects their skill and dedication and the decisive role they play in the defense of our nation,” Tom Boeing, the highest official of the Federation, said in a statement.

“We stand together with these working families fighting for fairness and respect for the job.”

that it First Strike At Boeing’s Defense Business since 1996, when work stopped for more than three months.

IAM is one of the largest unions in America, representing approximately 600,000 members of the air, defense, shipbuilding and manufacturing industries.

Boeing has suffered a series of crises in recent years, including two deadly accidents and a dramatic explosion in the air in one piece of its aircraft.

In 2018, Boeing 737 crashed After taking off from JakartaIndonesia, all of the 189 people were killed on the plane. A few months later, another 157 people died when Boeing fell soon After taking off in Ethiopia.

Separately in 2024, a panel installed on an unused emergency output one -time Boeing 737 as a maximum Out of the middle of the trip.

Last year, the strike cost about 30,000 workers in the work of jet passengers, billions of dollars, which increases the financial problems of the model.

The company only handed over 348 aircraft For its customers last year, its lowest production since the epidemic.