US EditionLawmakers Grill Boeing Exec as St. Louis Strike Continues
Boeing has hired permanent replacements and expanded recruitment amid a nearly two-month strike by 3,200 IAM members at St. Louis defense plants producing fighter jets and drones.
- On Wednesday, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler traveled to St. Louis to speak at an IAM rally as 3,200 IAM members have been on strike for nearly two months.
- Distrust of IAM leadership stems from repeated contract votes and past settlements, with workers rejecting three consecutive sellout contracts and citing September 19th District 837’s contested pre-ratification vote.
- Dan Gillian, Boeing's top St. Louis executive, said the company is activating contingency hiring and expanding recruitment with job fairs and advertising through the end of the year.
- Negotiated talks resumed under a federal mediator, and Boeing delivered a new offer to the International Association of Machinists, with 3,200 workers ready to return, as union signals show willingness to negotiate.
- The strike affects plants that build F-15 and F-18 fighter jets and advanced drones, prompting program relocations as critics warn of political risks including possible military deployment in St. Louis.
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Senators call on Boeing to end eight-week-long St. Louis strike
(Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders urged Boeing in a letter sent on Wednesday to end the eight-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, where it produces fighters, munitions and other military aircraft. “Do the right thing,” Sanders said in his letter to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg. The letter was sent the same day Sanders and other senators used a Senate committee nomination review hearing to slam Boeing’s behavior during the strike. About 3,20…
Boeing defense strike in danger as AFL-CIO president visits St. Louis
The strike is at a decisive phase. Either workers throw out the corrupt apparatus and build a new leadership, organized in a rank-and-file strike committee and based on a strategy for victory, or the bureaucracy will end the strike with a betrayal.
Lawmakers grill Boeing exec as St. Louis strike continues
HAZELWOOD, Mo. – From Hazelwood to the nation’s capital, the dialogue is ratcheting up as week nine of the St. Louis Boeing strike appears to be headed for week 10. Hundreds gathered at a raucous union rally in Hazelwood on Wednesday. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, echoed their voices in a Senate hearing a couple of hours earlier. He’s also written a letter to Boeing President Kelly Ortberg about the more than 3,200 striking Boeing work…
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