Overview

• The walkout involves about 3,200 IAM District 837 machinists at Boeing facilities in Berkeley and St. Charles, Missouri, and Mascoutah, Illinois.
• Boeing says it is proceeding with permanent replacement hires as part of a contingency plan to keep production running.
• The company touts a “last, best and final” offer that it says would lift wages by an average of up to 40% over four years with faster progression and benefit improvements.
• Union leaders say core issues remain unresolved, including pay progression, ratification bonuses, and job security, and they criticized the removal of a $5,000 signing bonus from earlier terms.
• Boeing has acknowledged that the strike has slowed work on F-15 and F/A-18 fighters, the T-7A trainer, the MQ-25 drone, and munitions.