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Boeing risks losing billions as 33,000 workers vote to strike
Workers refused to waste leverage as Boeing deals with $45 billion debt.
But after International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 751 president Jon Holden urged the union to accept the deal—which Boeing said was the "largest-ever general wage increase" in the company's history— hundreds of Boeing employees immediately began resisting ahead of a Thursday vote that ultimately doomed the deal. “We’ve got a lot of leverage—why waste that?” Joe Philbin, a structures mechanic, told the Post ahead of the vote in a Seattle union hall Thursday. Boeing likely anticipated that the deal wasn't good enough after Holden told The Seattle Times on Wednesday that workers would probably vote to strike.
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