A resounding no from Machinists
Boeing Machinists resoundingly rejected a deal that would have cut benefits but assured that production of the 777X would take place here.
By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
Ignoring warnings from Boeing and pleas from political leaders, members of the Machinists union Wednesday voted 2-to-1 to reject a contract offer that would have ensured the company builds the new 777X jet in Washington state.
Machinists threw out the proposed eight-year contract extension, unveiled barely a week earlier, because it was laced with cuts to benefits. Many members said they refused to be forced into a hasty and radical decision under a management threat that they would lose future work.
Blowing away the neutral public stance of International Association of Machinists (IAM) District 751 President Tom Wroblewski over the past week, his members delivered a resounding slap to Boeing.
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Legislature approves tax breaks to secure Boeing 777X
The Legislature on Saturday approved aerospace-training programs and billions in tax incentives to help secure Boeing’s 777X jet. The union vote is next.
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
OLYMPIA — Now the state waits.
With unusual speed, the Legislature on Saturday boosted aerospace-training programs and approved $8.7 billion in tax breaks to try to secure Boeing’s 777X jet.
But that meets only half of Boeing’s requirements to keep production of the aircraft in Washington state. The company also wants the Machinists union to accept a new eight-year contract with big cuts in future pension and health-care benefits.
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Boeing Machinists: How dare thee?
By Ron Judd
Seattle Times staff columnist
You Machinists have a lot of nerve.
Turning your back on that offer that thousands of Deep South welfare kings and queens would literally kill for. What in the name of Samuel Gompers is up with that?
Do you not see how your antiquated notions of “fair share” of massive profits threatens the indirect Boeing economy upon which we all rely? Surely your realize that every one of your jobs creates seven more for country-club economists who exist solely to remind the world of the value of those seven other jobs. Not to mention another 100 or so posts for lightly educated Twittereporters prone to making inept, Chicken Little comparisons between Puget Sound and Detroit.
All of us craning our necks skyward in this trickle-down barista economy are depending on you folks, and all you can think about is yourselves and the benefits to which you somehow feel “entitled” simply because you earned them through decades of sacrifice and hard bargaining? It makes a person wonder about your upbringing.
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