Boeing factory workers walked off the job for the first time in 16 years, halting manufacturing across the planemaker’s Seattle hub after members of its largest union voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract offer and go on strike.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents 33,000 Boeing employees across the U.S. West Coast, stopped work at midnight on Friday. Hundreds of workers manned picket lines at the Renton factory outside of Seattle that makes Boeing’s top-selling aircraft, the 737 Max.
