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The verdict is still out on who exactly won the Boeing Machinists strike of 2008, but it has nonetheless given a shot in the arm to a weakening organized labor movement in America.
When Boeing's biggest union voted to go on strike Sept. 3, the economy was slowing but financial markets seemed relatively calm.
Boeing Co.'s Machinist union said it will vote on a tentative four-year labor pact on Saturday, a process that could end an eight-week strike against the airplane maker.
A tentative four-year agreement with wage increases totaling 15 percent was reached late Monday to end a machinists' strike that has shut down Boeing Co. commercial airplane operations since Sept. 6.
Boeing Co. and its Machinists union reached a tentative four-year settlement to end a strike that has shut down the company's commercial airplane operations since Sept. 6, union and company spokesmen confirmed.
With the collapse of revived contract talks after barely two days, a strike that shut down Boeing Co.'s commercial aircraft plants Sept. 6 appears likely to continue well into November and possibly longer.
Striking Boeing Co. production workers hunkered down Saturday for what could be along, bruising battle with costly repercussions for both sides.
A last-minute move to avert a potentially bruising strike that could cost more than 27,000 workers weeks of pay would usually be met with unalloyed relief.
Boeing Co. on Tuesday said it has made an improved second offer to the Machinists union under ongoing contract talks.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group Tuesday that he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.
Boeing machinist strike set to end as company agrees tentative dealThe Oak Ridge facility has never been the happiest place for Boeing workers and has been a constant source of headaches for Boeing management, but at least now the painfully long industrial action is ceasing.
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