Boeing, Striking Defense Workers Union to Start Talks Monday

(Bloomberg) -Being Co. and St. The union leaders representing striking workers in the Louis region defense factories will return to the bargaining table on Monday because they aim to end a three -week deadlock.

According to Boeing and union representatives, the session will mark the first official negotiations. My effort at the Defense Unit comes months after Poremaker ended a dispute with the workers of Seattle region for two months.

Boeing Vice President and Senior St. Louis Site Manager Dan Gillian, “Further meetings and strikes with the Union to end the strike and bring our team to work ahead of finding a way to find a way to find a way,” he said.

Boeing shares closed 2.5% higher on Friday. The stock has won 30% this year, the 30 -member Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is the second best artist.

At the Boeing facilities in Missouri and Illinois, a 3,200 -hour worker rejected an agreement that would increase wages by 20% and increase their pension contributions. The union last began to strike in 1996 and stopped 99 days.

Negotiations are the loss of health benefits paid by the company at the end of August as the members of the union approaches an important intersection. According to Boeing’s website, the company has made informal discussions with workers’ leaders since the strike.

The union members are building a fighter plane such as F-15, T-7 training jet, missiles and flight control surfaces for 777x jet. The company, on the website, Boeing’s St. Louis said that the site was open during the disagreement with the company’s customers supporting strik -free labor.

(It is updated by the interpretation of a Boeing manager. An previous version corrected the order called Union in the second paragraph.)

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