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The Boeing machinists union rejected the company's latest contract offer on Wednesday by 64%, the union president announced on Wednesday night.
“We have not achieved enough to meet our members demands," said Jon Holden, International Association of Machinists District 751 president. "We remain on strike."
The union strike has crippled Boeing's manufacturing lines and was thought to be coming to an end as machinists voted on the company's latest contract offer to get over 33,000 of their employees back to work.
Union members voted Wednesday.
In an internal message sent Thursday by Boeing Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Pope and obtained by KING 5, Pope said the company’s proposal had “unprecedented improvements” for Pacific Northwest production and maintenance employees.
“We are disappointed in the result of the vote,” Pope’s message, which was sent to employees in commercial airplanes in Washington and Oregon, reads.
Boeing machinists went on strike at midnight on Sept. 13 after time
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