Boeing Defense Workers Reject Latest Offer, Extending Strike (2)

Boeing Co. factory workers in St. Louis rejected a new five-year contract that would boost wages by an average of 24%, extending a three-month strike that has disrupted the company’s main military manufacturing hub.

“Boeing claimed they listened to their employees – the result of today’s vote proves they have not,” International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union International President Brian Bryant said in a statement announcing the outcome.

The 3,200 members of the IAM District 837 began their strike in the early hours of Aug. 4. The strife has drawn rebukes from US senators Josh Hawley and Bernie ...