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LABORPRESS RADIO DAILY 11/18/24- Boeing Workers Strike After Rejecting New Contract · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: So Labor Press Daily, I've realized they post an article
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  Speaker 1: every day thanks to Silver Kreeger, and this one is
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  Speaker 1: about Boeing workers striking after rejecting the new contract. Here's
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  Speaker 1: how Silver wrote. Boeing workers, who are members of the
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  Speaker 1: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, overwhelmingly rejected a
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  Speaker 1: tentative contract offer on September eighth. If we've been following
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  Speaker 1: this movement, you know that it's been a struggle for
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  Speaker 1: the union workers against Boeing, and the next step was
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  Speaker 1: a strike early morning Friday the thirteenth.
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  Speaker 2: That was in September.
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  Speaker 1: I AM District's seven to five to one President John
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  Speaker 1: Holden gave a list of agreements, including Boeing's failure to
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  Speaker 1: bargaining good.
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  Speaker 2: Faith and a lawful surveillance of employees.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty five percent proposed wage increase doesn't cover the
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  Speaker 1: cost of living. The union had years of giveback to
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  Speaker 1: the company since two thousand and eight, and now they
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  Speaker 1: want their dual.
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  Speaker 2: So we've been following.
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  Speaker 1: I've been following a little bit the Boeing workers' strike
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  Speaker 1: as well as that been reporting on it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's important to write about this because the
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  Speaker 2: airline industry.
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  Speaker 1: I just see Spare airlines went out of business or
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  Speaker 1: you know, Faber brankruptcy. The airline industry has had problem
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  Speaker 1: keeping union members happy. Remember the pilots wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: up to strike. Boweing's had issues in general with their planes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, somehow losing a door mid air. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of issues that the union guys
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  Speaker 1: have had to put up with. So it's no surprise
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  Speaker 1: that thirty thousand employees were participated in the strike's beginnings
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  Speaker 1: and the production of the company's aircraft is at a.
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  Speaker 2: Standstill for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: This was written today, November eighteenth, twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to give an update because I haven't been
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  Speaker 1: seeing update about this since September. But in addition, today
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  Speaker 1: boeing'said it would be laying off more than two thousand
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  Speaker 1: workers in Washington and Oregon, a mirror of strikes, a
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  Speaker 1: minute year of strikes and safety issues. So not only
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  Speaker 1: is Boeing not helping the union guys, they're laying them off.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, to me, I wish Boeing would just
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  Speaker 1: work with their union guys and work with employees, because
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  Speaker 1: anybody who takes a Boeing flaight right now, it's a risk.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know if a door's gonna fly off the it.
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  Speaker 2: Just or not.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is Washington and Oregon, but you wonder how
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  Speaker 1: many more nationwide could happen as there's a min there's
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  Speaker 1: plans to cut ten percent.
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  Speaker 2: Of the workforce. This according to USA Today. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on here.
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  Speaker 1: Labor Press is on the scene as well, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: be covering the rest of that story. As the union
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  Speaker 1: workers are not happy. They've rejected deal after deal and
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  Speaker 1: proposal after proposal, and for good measure, who would wanna fly,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not a passenger but a worker, fly
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  Speaker 1: in an airplane that might uh combustulate any moment.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't treat the workers on the ground
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  Speaker 2: while that.
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  Speaker 1: Are making the aircraft, who would want to show up
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  Speaker 1: to make the aircraft to begin with. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: trickle down effect and Boweling's facing a lot of heat
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  Speaker 1: for it. But the union members are holding their own
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  Speaker 1: They're holding the line, as they say in the union world.
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  Speaker 1: So came in touch with the Labor Press Radio daily
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow November nineteenth. But today, November eighteenth, sober Krieger is
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  Speaker 1: writing about the Boeing strikes going on by the workers,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll see what's in store on November nineteenth.
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  Speaker 2: But it's funny. I'm on the railroad right now and transit.
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  Speaker 1: listening once again to Labor Press Radio. I'm Alex Garret.