Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Striking Boeing machinists rally in Seattle, Pierce County jurors will get paid $100 per day, and what's the future of tipping in Seattle? It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna.
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| 0:51.2 | Hey there, from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here are today's top stories. It's Tuesday, October 15th. |
| 1:04.0 | Unionized Boeing workers on strike say they're committed to holding the line. Today, machinists held a rally in Seattle's South Park |
| 1:12.6 | neighborhood, a little over a month since 33,000 of them walked off the job, demanding |
| 1:18.6 | higher pay and better benefits. I've been at the company 36 years. This strike is different. The energy |
| 1:26.2 | is different. The demand is different. Jackie Vaden is an |
| 1:30.7 | upholsterer for the company. She thinks if Boeing doesn't offer workers a pension and a pay |
| 1:36.1 | bump soon, they'll be on strike for weeks more. I was even being optimistic to the point to where |
| 1:41.9 | I thought maybe we'd be back before Thanksgiving. |
| 1:47.1 | I don't think that's going to happen either. Maybe Christmas. |
| 1:53.0 | The union is holding a job fair next week for machinists needing to pick up a second job. |
| 1:58.7 | The machinists have been asking for 40% pay raise and the return of a pension benefit. |
| 2:03.3 | The company proposed a 30% pay raise and larger contributions to 401k retirement plans. The company later said that offer was off the table. All Washington |
| 2:11.2 | counties are sending out ballots this week for the November election. One of the more controversial |
| 2:17.2 | measures is Initiative 2117, |
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