Boeing Workers Go on Strike: Here’s What You Need to Know

Boeing factory workers walked off the job after 12 a.m. on Friday, stopping production of the prominent aerospace manufacturer’s airplanes after they rejected a new contract. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), the union, voted 96 percent to strike, and 94.6 percent voted to reject the Boeing agreement in the Seattle area and in neighboring Oregon. “We strike at midnight,” IAM District 751 President Jon Holden told a news conference on Thursday after delivering the results of the vote, adding that it is an “unfair labor practice strike.” He alleged that factory workers at Boeing experienced “discriminatory conduct, coercive questioning, unlawful surveillance” and that they had “unlawful promise of benefits.”...