Hundreds of workers occupied picket lines at the Renton factory outside of Seattle that makes Boeing’s top-selling aircraft, the 737 Max.
“Clearly there were aspects of this agreement that weren’t good enough.” By the time he’d finished speaking, the chants of “strike, strike” were deafening.
But his memo imploring workers not to strike, warning that work stoppage would hurt Boeing’s recovery, didn’t sit well with some union members.
While that’s the largest such pay hike ever offered by the planemaker, workers had expected a far greater increase.
Boeing workers have vowed to picket at about 30 company sites from California to Moses Lake in eastern Washington.

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