A strike at Boeing has ended after workers accepted management’s latest offer of a 38% pay rise over four years.
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing expects it will take several weeks for production to return to normal levels after the nearly two-month-long strike ends. TASR informs about it based on the report of the AP agency.
Necessary steps and a complicated situation
Regarding the resumption of production after a strike that lasted 53 days and ended early last week, a Boeing spokesman said there would be delays in resuming production at plants in Washington state and Oregon. The reason is several necessary steps that the company must take to completely resume production.
This makes the situation even more complicated for Boeing, since its problems related to the delivery of aircraft to customers began much earlier than the strike of 33,000 employees that broke out on September 13.
The strike ended after workers accepted Boeing management’s latest offer of a 38% pay increase over four years. The strike paralyzed production of the key 737 and long-haul 777 jetliners, as well as the freighter version of the 767. During the strike, Boeing produced only the 787, which is built in South Carolina, where workers are not unionized.
14 delivered aircraft per month
At the same time, the company expects that the strike will significantly affect the revenue that aircraft manufacturers receive when delivering them to customers. Boeing said on Tuesday it delivered 14 planes to customers in October, including those completed before the strike. The orders represented 63 aircraft, including 40 737 MAX machines, which were ordered by the leasing company Avia Solutions Group.
