#Boeing #strike: management attempts to find replacement work. During 2008 strike, #FAA ordered replacement work to stop because it was subpar.

https://labornotes.org/2024/09/boeing-machinists-strike

#strikes #union #unions #scab #Renton #Everett #IAM #Washington #Oregon #PugetSound #SPEEA #IAFF #Teamsters #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

Boeing Machinists Strike

Third-shift workers walked out of Boeing’s giant factories at Renton and Everett, Washington, as their contract expired early Friday morning, blasting music and airhorns, shooting off fireworks, and waving hand-made signs. They immediately formed picket lines and began setting up homemade burn barrels with “IAM” carved in the side. “People are really excited to strike,” said Ky Carlson, a third-shift assembler who walked out at midnight and was picketing the Everett plant at 3 am.

Labor Notes
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The Guardian

@kegill @peterbrown

I'm a (now) retired engineer that took the 2016 #SPEEA buyout.

I'm glad I did and am not surprised at the extent of the rot.

Moe Tkacik (co-founder of Jezebel) has done a lot of recent scholarship on this.