Boeing Engineers Reject 30% Pay Hike, Authorize October Strike

Boeing $BA engineers and technicians reject a major contract offer. More than two-thirds of the union voted down a nearly 30 percent wage increase over four years, despite unanimous endorsement from their own negotiating committee. The rejected proposal would have been the group's largest wage hike since 1983. Roughly 17,000 aerospace workers have authorized a potential strike if a new deal isn't secured by October 6. Boeing is now implementing a strike contingency plan following deep-seated mistrust between employees and management. The company previously dealt with a two-month strike by 33,000 commercial plane workers in 2024 and a three-month strike by 3,200 defense workers in 2025 they had to negotiate their way out of. "It’s important to acknowledge how we got here; this mistrust was built brick by brick over the past several contracts." — Union Negotiators When a workforce rejects a massive pay bump endorsed by its own leadership, the relationship with management is fundamentally broken.