Boeing defense workers strike in a new blow to the flight giant star-news.press/wp

More than three thousand Boeing defense workers The strike went on Monday, in a new blow to the besieged aviation giant.

This comes after the members of the Federation voted in operations in Missouri and Ilinoi, who built F-15 combat aircraft and other military aircraft, against the company’s last wages, and work schedules and pensions.

“We were disappointed by our employees, rejecting a 40 % wage growth,” said Dan Jillian, a deputy head of the Boeing Air Hegemony Unit in Boeing, in a statement.

Boeing is struggling to turn herself after a series of problems, including safety issues and harassment of nearly eight weeks by passenger plane workers last year.

Withdrawal It is led by a local branch of the International Association of Mechanics and Space Workers (IAM) based in St. Louis, where there is a Boeing Center for the Defense of Manufacturing.

“3,200 members of the IAM with high skills in Boeing have been hit in the middle of the night because enough. This is about respect and dignity, not empty promises.” Posted on X.

IAM is one of the largest unions in America, representing approximately 600,000 members of the air, defense, shipbuilding and manufacturing industries.

that it The first appeal in Boeing’s Defeense since 1996, when the work stopped for more than three months.

But last week Boeing CEO, Kelly Orberg, reduced the potential impact of withdrawal.

He highlighted that it will be much smaller than the strike last year, which included about 30,000 workers from the passenger plane, which cost the company billions of dollars.

“You will not worry much about the repercussions of the strike. We will manage our way through this,” said Mr. Ordraj.

Boeing has suffered a series of crises in recent years, including two deadly accidents and a dramatic explosion in the air in one piece of its aircraft.

In 2018, Boeing 737 crashed after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board. A few months later, 157 people died when Boeing crashed shortly after taking off in Ethiopia.

Separately in 2024, a panel that was installed on an unused emergency exit from the Boeing 737 Max plane out of the middle of the flight.

The company provided only 348 aircraft to its customers last year, its lowest production since the epidemic.