Overview
- The union appealed this week to Missouri’s congressional delegation and other lawmakers to press Boeing back to the negotiating table.
- About 3,200 IAM District 837 machinists have been on strike since August 4 after rejecting a four-year contract proposal they deemed substandard.
- The walkout halts work at Boeing facilities in St. Louis, St. Charles and Mascoutah that produce and maintain F-15, F/A-18, T-7 Red Hawk and MQ-25 systems.
- Boeing says its offer averages a 40 percent wage increase and adds vacation and sick leave while its executives consider the strike manageable under pre-strike contingency plans.
- Local reporting indicates Boeing’s revised offer before the walkout dropped an Alternative Workweek Schedule and included a 50 percent per-hour raise for top-scale employees.