Boeing Defense Unit Workers Set to Strike Monday: WSJ

This time it’s union machinists in Boeing’s defense business that are set to walk out. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Boeing leaders face another picket line Monday after machinists in its St. Louis-area defense business rejected their latest contract offer.

The union division that represents about 3,200 workers in Missouri and Illinois on Sunday rejected the aerospace giant’s latest four-year contract proposal, scheduling a strike to begin at midnight Monday and threatening the company’s fragile turnaround effort.

The machinists had worked without a contract for the past week as company and union representatives haggled over work schedules and benefits, among other issues.

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