(Source: The Stand, November 14, 2013)
SEATTLE — By a 2-to-1 margin, members of Machinists (IAM) District Council 751 who work at Boeing in Washington state voted Wednesday to reject the company’s proposed 8-year contract extension that eliminated workers’ pensions, raised their health care costs, and would have slowed their progression through the pay scale. The company had said that if IAM members accepted the offer, it would build the new 777X in Washington state. Boeing executives now say they will open up the bidding process for the work to other states.
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