Defense workers of the United States are embarking on strike after rejecting the last offer | US News
More than 3,200 unionized workers who assemble the Boeing hunting planes in the St Louis region took strike after rejected Boeing’s last offer on Sunday.
Boeing Defense said he was ready for the work stoppage on Monday and would implement an emergency plan that used non-development workers.
“The members of the district 837 of the IAM district … deserve a contract which reflects their skills, their dedication and the essential role they play in the defense of our country,” said the commercial representative of the union, Tom Boelling on Sunday.
Last week, Boeing sent a new contract offer to the Union with some minor remuneration modifications that would benefit the high members of the union, according to the company. The offer also kept current overtime policies, which Boeing had proposed to modify in the last contractual offer.
The offer was largely the same as the first offer that was extremely rejected a week earlier.
Boeing said that if the contract offer had been approved, the average annual salary would have reached $ 102,600, compared to $ 75,000.
Dan Gillian, vice-president and managing director of Boeing Air Dominance and principal director of the ST Louis site, told St Louis Business Journal: “We are disappointed that our employees have rejected an offer that included average salary growth at 40% and resolved their main problem on alternative working hours. We can continue to support our customers. ”
The workers assemble Boeing fighter planes and the MQ-25, a refueling drone under supplies under development for the American navy.
This East The first strike in which Boeing has been confronted with its St Louis defense center since 1996.
Boeing’s Defense Division extends manufacturing facilities in the St Louis region for the new Air Force fighter, the F-47, after winning the contract this year.
The CEO of Boeing, Kelly Ortberg, said last week that the planned strike would be much smaller than that of the strike of 30,000 workers last year, when the company won a burden of $ 661 million on its oil development contract KC-46 with the US Air Force.
“We will manage this,” said Ortberg when calling results. “I would not worry too much about the implications of the strike.”
Boeing currently has contracts for several major programs in the Department of Defense, according to Defense News, including F-47 and F-15EX fighters from the Air Force, the T-7 Training Jet and the Recapitalization Effort of the Air Force One.
