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Boeing Workers Resoundingly Reject New Contract and Extend Strike

The vote, hours after Boeing reported a $6.1 billion loss, will extend a nearly six-week-long strike at factories where the company makes its best-selling commercial plane.

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Union Votes to Reject Boeing Contract and Continue Strike

Workers in Boeing’s largest union voted by a wide margin to reject a second tentative contract and extend a nearly six-week-long strike.

“Today, members voted to reject the company’s latest offer by 64 percent. Because our members have stood together, united.” “Feeling energized. I’m feeling energized. Yeah, we voted ‘No’ today — tonight — that’s all that matters. If they give us a good offer next year, next month, next week — if it’s good enough, then we’ll take it.” “I feel sorry for the young people. I’ve spent my life here and I’m getting ready to go. But they deserve a pension and I deserve an increase.”

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Workers in Boeing’s largest union voted by a wide margin to reject a second tentative contract and extend a nearly six-week-long strike.CreditCredit…M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times

Niraj Chokshi

Reporting from Seattle

Oct. 23, 2024

Boeing’s largest union rejected a tentative labor contract on Wednesday by a wide margin, extending a damaging strike and adding to the mounting financial problems facing the company, which hours earlier had reported a $6.1 billion loss.

The contract, the second that workers have voted down, was opposed by 64 percent of those voting, according to the union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The union represents about 33,000 workers, but it did not disclose how many voted on Wednesday.

“There’s much more work to do. We will push to get back to the table, we will push for the members’ demands as quickly as we can,” said Jon Holden, president of District 751 of the union, which represents the vast majority of the workers and has led in the talks. He delivered that message at the union’s Seattle headquarters to a room of members chanting, “Fight, fight.”

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Jon Holden, president of the union’s District 751, announcing the vote results on Wednesday in Seattle: “We will push to get back to the table.”Credit…M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times

Boeing declined to comment on the vote, which was a setback for the company’s new chief executive, Kelly Ortberg, who is trying to restore its reputation and business with a strategy he described in detail earlier on Wednesday. In remarks to workers and investors, Mr. Ortberg said Boeing needed to undergo “fundamental culture change” to stabilize the business and to improve execution.

“Our leaders, from me on down, need to be closely integrated with our business and the people who are doing the design and production of our products,” he said. “We need to be on the factory floors, in the back shops and in our engineering labs. We need to know what’s going on, not only with our products, but with our people.”

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