IAM Strikes Boeing

[ThirdSeatHero]

A solid last offer shoot down and a solid vote to strike.

Stay Strong Gentlemen.

https://leehamnews.com/2024/09/12/boeing-iam-contract-vote-today-the-stakes-are-high/

 

[WeAAsles]

A lot of reasons for them to vote no but one of those reasons is they’re ripping them off on raises. They give them raises with one hand but take them back with the other by eliminating a bonus program that paid them 3 to 4% yearly.

‘Hard No’: Boeing Workers React to Tentative Agreement

With their contract expiring at midnight on Thursday, the Machinists union at the aircraft giant Boeing announced a tentative contract agreement September 8. It was a shock to many union members. “Insulting,” “Joke of a contract,” and “Hard no” were some of the more polite reactions registered...

www.labornotes.org

 

[WeAAsles]

Pretty serious condemnation against the IAM Local 751 and IAM hierarchy when you read all the particulars. These members have a definite right to ask why was a pig 🐷 even brought back for them to vote on much less endorsed by the 751 leadership?

When a membership votes down a deal by near 95% and authorizes a Strike by 96% and particularly because if the Membership didn’t vote yes to Strike by 2/3 vote (What the hell even is that garbage) it would have been implemented) that’s a big pig 🐷

This IAM Local going all the way back to 2008 seems to have a lot of questions they should answer for.

“New hires, old hires, retirees, we’re sticking together for a common goal”: Boeing machinists explain what is at stake in their strike

Boeing machinists are expressing the true feelings of workers across the country and around the world, including the enormous opposition within the working class to the assault on living standards, the increase of social inequality and attacks on basic social rights.

www.wsws.org

 

[CorvetteMan]

Pretty serious condemnation against the IAM Local 751 and IAM hierarchy when you read all the particulars. These members have a definite right to ask why was a pig 🐷 even brought back for them to vote on much less endorsed by the 751 leadership?

When a membership votes down a deal by near 95% and authorizes a Strike by 96% and particularly because if the Membership didn’t vote yes to Strike by 2/3 vote (What the hell even is that garbage) it would have been implemented) that’s a big pig 🐷

This IAM Local going all the way back to 2008 seems to have a lot of questions they should answer for.

“New hires, old hires, retirees, we’re sticking together for a common goal”: Boeing machinists explain what is at stake in their strike

Boeing machinists are expressing the true feelings of workers across the country and around the world, including the enormous opposition within the working class to the assault on living standards, the increase of social inequality and attacks on basic social rights.

www.wsws.org

751 isn’t a local lodge. It’s one of the largest District Lodges in the IAM.

 

[WeAAsles]

751 isn’t a local lodge. It’s one of the largest District Lodges in the IAM.

Bureaucracy. That guy Jon Holden should resign in disgrace. He won’t though of course.