The account is not yet there for representatives of workers who gather Boeing combat planes. Currently on strike, they requested the support of American elected officials on Wednesday, August 13, hoping to increase pressure on the aeronautical giant, while the negotiations are in point.
“We respectfully respect him to join us to support this highly qualified workforce, whose role is of vital importance,” wrote the machinery union in letters aimed at representatives and senators of Missouri, qualifying the last offer of Boeing “mediocre”.
3,200 strike workers for 10 days
Some 3,200 members of the Syndicate 837 of the IAM Union (International Machinist Association and Aerospace Workers) have been on strike since August 4, after having rejected the proposal for the new commercial contract of the manufacturer of US aircraft. The two parties have not resumed discussions since the beginning of parenting.
The strike affects the Boeing sites in St. Louis and St. Charles in Missouri, and Mascautah in Illinois, where F-15 and F-18 combat aircraft are manufactured, the Network Hawk T-7 driver training system, as well as the Drone MQ-25.
The union requires fair remuneration, with the salaries corresponding to the cost of living, as well as a “contract that respects antiquity and experience,” according to IAM. Boeing states that its offer provides an average increase in salaries by 40%, as well as more days of license and disease.
The local movement of St. Louis intervenes after another strike that paralyzed the production factories of the commercial aircraft of Boeing last autumn in the northwest of the United States, involving around 33,000 workers. Group leaders described St. Louis’s strike as “manageable”, emphasizing that they were prepared there even before employees joined the strike bets.
Source: BFM TV
