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Aerospace Blog

September 6, 2008

The Herald/Mark Mulligan (click to enlarge)

Boeing Machinists walked out of the company's factories yesterday.

Machinists’ strike, Day 1

Posted at 11:29 am by Michelle Dunlop

Machinists are stationed outside each of Boeing’s gates here in Everett, picket signs in tow, less than 12 hours into a strike.

I checked in with Boeing this morning. No meetings between the company and union negotiators have been scheduled.

Boeing has added an extensive Q and A section on their negotiations Web site, addressing many of the concerns striking Machinists may have.

A few things to note: Striking Machinists, in general, are not allowed to log in to their work e-mail accounts from home. However, striking union members can still send their children to day care and still use the company’s fitness centers.

The Union also has information for members on strike at its Web site.

Check out our photo gallery of union members hitting the picket lines early yesterday.

Share your photos from the picket lines. We’ll put together a readers’ photo gallery, and I’ll post some of your photos on the blog. E-mail your photos/info to Justin Best, The Herald’s photo editor.

I’ll post some reader comments later this afternoon. Continue to send me your thoughts on the strike or post comments below.

Also, I’ve updated the reader poll that we posted yesterday. Many of you wrote to suggest that I add a category for a longer strike. Vote away.

How long with the Boeing Machinists' strike last? ( surveys)

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The greedy upper management
Boeing!....The greedy upper management who want to keep the workers down. They do not want your children to go to school with theirs, for you to live in the same neiborhoods with them, shop at the same stores or be able to retire at a young age. It is all about class separation. The ones that whine the most are those stuck in dead end jobs with no one to stand up for them. Most of the smart ones know that we set the pace for all wages and benefit levels for all workers in the area we work in. My buying power is not what it was when I started at McDonnell-Douglas (now Boeing St. Louis) in 1981 as inflation has gone up more than my wages. But the upper management have widened the gap of what they make vs what I make, Plus my benefit cost have gone up more than 10x what it was but my wage has only gone up 4x what I started with in 1981. This does not include the take aways. So before you whine about the workers do your homework, go beyound the media sound bites so your comment does not make you look foolish making an un-informed opinion. The brothers & sisters here at McDonnell Douglas a subsidiary of Boeing IAM-837 the builders of the best military aircraft in the WORLD!, F-15 the F-18 Super Hornet, T-45 & the C-17 are behind the STRIKE 100% It will be OUR TURN in 2010!
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thomas kempland | Sep 6, 2008 4:42 pm | 0 replies | View all | Post reply | Request removal

strike
As an US Navy Veteran well trained by Uncle Sam + College educated under the GI Bill over 35 years working with military aircraft, going thru constant training just like very many IAM members with similar backgrounds. We are not a bunch of greedy union slackers but very good at what we do. This is why they pay us what they do and to keep the highly trained work force they will have to agree to some understanding with the IAM. So "ceeparks" & others who just know the here-say & media sound-bites and have no hands on info you are talking out your a**. Juat ask the lower non-union Boeing workers....they know what the union gets helps their cause. And as far as outsiders comming in to do scab work....they can not even come near the standards of a well trained IAM member!
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