"[Boeing's best and last contract offer to machinists was] an
insulting, take-away, job-stealing offer."
Source: Mark Blondin, president of District 751 of
the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
at a strike meeting in the Seattle area Thursday night. He was
quoted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The rank and file agreed,
86-percent of them voting to walk off the job. Commercial aircraft
production at Boeing, which is seeing the best year for new
aircraft sales since 2001, has now ground to a halt.
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