More than 30,000 workers from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) began a strike against Boeing on Friday after rejecting a new contract offer. Union leader Jon Holden told NPR that workers are confident they can secure bigger wage increases and an improved pension.
SEATTLE — A strike at Boeing 'could go on for a while' as workers are confident they can get bigger wage increases and an improved pension, union leader Jon Holden said in an interview with National Public Radio on Saturday .More than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers , who produce Boeing 's top-selling 737 MAX and other jets in Seattle and Portland, began a strike on Friday after overwhelmingly voting down a new contract.
Holden said the priorities for his members were a bigger wage increase and the restoration of a defined-benefit pension scheme that the IAM lost during a previous round of negotiations with Boeing a decade ago.'We have the most leverage and the most power at the most opportune time that we've ever had in our history, and our members are expecting us to use it,' Holden told NPR.'I know that our members are confident.
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