Boeing workers defented a new blow to the aviation giant

More than three thousand Boeing Defense Workers Old on Monday, with a new blow to the aviation giant.

It comes after members of unions in operations in Missouri and Illinois, who build F-15 fighter jets and other military aircraft, voted against the company’s last proposal over pay, job schedules and pensions.

“We are disappointed that our employees have rejected an offer that includes a 40% average wage growth,” said Dan Jillian, who is Vice President of the Boeing Air Domination Division.

Boeing is struggling to turn after a series of problems including safety and harm problems An almost eight -week walk by workers on a passenger plane last year.

Walk is led by a local branch of the International Association of Machines and Aerospace Workers (IAM), based in St. Louis, where the Boeing Defense Center is located.

“3200 highly qualified members of IAM Union in Boeing were on strike at midnight because it is enough. This is about respect and dignity, not for empty promises,” the Union Posted on xS

IAM is one of the largest alliances in America, representing approximately 600,000 members in aerospace, defense, shipbuilding and production industry.

It’s The first walk in Boeing’s defense business since 1996, when work stopped for more than three months.

But last week, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg downplayed the potential impact of the walk.

He stressed that it would be much smaller than the strike last year, including about 30,000 workers of passengers costing billions of dollars.

“I wouldn’t worry too much about the consequences of the strike. We’ll make our way through it,” said G -n Ortberg.

Boeing has been affected by a series of crises in recent years, including two fatal catastrophes and a dramatic blow to medium air in a piece of one of its planes.

In 2018, Boeing 737 crashes After take -off from JakartaIndonesia, killing all 189 people on board. A few months later, another 157 people died when Boeing’s plane crashed soon After take -off in EthiopiaS

Separately in 2024 a panel mounted over unused emergency exit of Boeing 737 max came down from the middle of a flightS

The company only delivered 348 aircraft For his customers last year, his lowest production after the pandemic.