Previous Contract Updates

The Main Table met on Monday to hear from the various subcommittees on their progress. Although some subcommittees are moving at a decent pace, there are many areas where the company needs to start making progress and quit talking takeaways.
 
It is apparent based on the company’s communications and in various meetings held by the leadership of the company they are intent on dividing the membership by catering to specific groups of the member population. Just the simple fact of the company putting out what they are offering to the Team Leaders is an area of grave concern to us. They are attempting to negotiate directly with the members by chipping away at certain groups and throwing out proposals to gauge the reaction. This is an unfair labor practice and information is being collected to pursue our legal options.
 
Be wary of these Company tactics. Divide and conquer tactics that may work with other groups WILL NOT FLY with our members. Our members know the games Boeing plays every time we go into negotiations.
 
Boeing will throw out all sorts of statistics and fact sheets to justify how much it costs them to do business with respect to your wages and benefits, but they fail to remember EVEN with those costs, Boeing is making record profits thanks to you. Boeing’s only true competition is Airbus, which has comparable worker wages and better benefits; however, the big difference is in executive pay where Boeing executive are paid millions more than their Airbus counterparts. The fact is labor costs are still less than 5 percent of the airplane cost. We’ve had two contracts where we have not made any significant improvements, but just held our ground. It’s Our Time This Time for Improvements in ALL areas.
 
We know in our hearts we are strong and united. We know the membership will not fall for it.
 
We WILL NOT – Sell out the NEW HIRES who are not even here yet on their pension!
We WILL NOT – Sell out Wichita!
We WILL NOT – Settle for a GWI for only a select group!
We WILL NOT – Allow higher out of pocket expenses for Health Care!
We WILL NOT – Let the company dismiss seniority based promotions
We WILL NOT – Settle for less!
 
IT’S OUR TIME…THIS TIME!

WE ARE the Fighting Machinists and WE WILL Prevail
 
In Solidarity
Your Union Negotiating Team