The Carrot Or The Stick? Striking Machinists Urged To Accept Boeing's Offer...Or Else
After 7 weeks on strike, Boeing and union leaders are urging striking Machinists to accept the company's latest offer.
By Peter List, Editor | November 4, 2024
With 33,000 striking Machinists having crippled Boeing for more than seven weeks, union members will be voting today to accept or reject the latest deal.
If agreed to, the deal—touted by union leaders to be “an amazing agreement”—will end a contentious strike that has cost “$11.5 billion and counting,” according to CNN Business, as well as up to 17,000 Boeing workers their jobs due to layoffs.
The Carrot or The Stick
On Friday, in a lengthy post detailing the “wins” on X (formerly Twitter), union leaders encouraged rank-and-file Machinists to accept the company’s latest offer, stating (in part):