“This proposal is not sufficient to address our concerns, and Boeing has missed the mark with this proposal,” officials leading the negotiations with the company’s management said in a letter to members.
They stressed in the letter that the company’s managers “are trying to cause a rift between our members and weaken our solidarity through this divisive policy.”
And it was Boeing It has improved its initial offer in an effort to end the strike at Seattle-area factories.
“We initially presented the offer to the union and subsequently shared the details transparently with our workers,” the company said in a statement, adding, “We have been in good faith discussions with the IAM union since formal negotiations began in March.”
The company gave workers until midnight Friday to approve the proposal, calling it “the best and final.”
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said Boeing’s deadline did not allow enough time to discuss the proposal with workers and vote on it.
About 33,000 members of the association in the Pacific Northwest region went on strike on September 13 after rejecting an earlier offer from the company, which led to the closure of its 737 Max and 777 assembly plants.
The 30 percent increase is better than the original proposal that league officials initially approved, before it was defeated by a workers’ vote.
Their main demands include a 40 percent wage increase.
Members complain that wages have been stagnant for more than a decade, a problem exacerbated by consumer inflation in recent years and the rising cost of living in the Seattle area, a growing tech hub.
The new proposal reinstated the annual bonus that had been withdrawn in a previous proposal.
The two sides held discussions over two days last week, mediated by US government officials.
Boeing President Kelly Ortberg stressed that ending the strike is a “top priority” for the giant company.
Boeing’s commercial aviation business has come under intense scrutiny since a door broke off the fuselage of a plane. Boeing 737 An Alaska Airlines Max crashed mid-flight in January, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.
But its defense, space and security unit posted heavy losses in the last quarter, and its contract with NASA It causes her huge losses due to the ongoing problems that the Starliner spacecraft suffers from.
