Why One Family Rejected Boeing's Latest Offer

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

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For four generations, the Merwin family has worked in Boeing’s factories in Washington state. But for the last six weeks, Tony Merwin and his son Patrick have been on strike, along with 33,000 machinists. They explain why they’re demanding higher wages and pension benefits. Further Reading: -For This Boeing Family, the Job Is the Same. The Payoff Isn’t -Boeing Strike Extended After Union Machinists Reject Contract -Boeing’s CEO Is Shrinking the Jet Maker to Stop Its Crisis From Spiraling Further Listening: -Why 33,000 Boeing Workers Walked Off the Job -Boeing's Long Flight Delay – in Space -Boeing Agrees to Felony Plea. Now Its Future Is Up in the Air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last week Boeing drew up a deal to end a six-week strike that has frozen end in sight.
0:13.0	But members of its union rejected the deal,
0:17.0	extending a strike that has no end in sight. 1 day stronger. stronger.
0:24.0	1 day stronger.
0:27.0	33,000 machinists are on strike.
0:30.0	Among them are Tony Merwin and his son Patrick.
0:34.0	Their family has worked at Boeing and Washington State
0:37.5	for four generations.
0:39.5	What was it like to go on strike? We were on the picket line the very first night and I'll be perfectly honest the energy from the union members was intense and it wasn't a bad intensity. Everyone was
0:59.0	excited to fight. They wanted to fight for their future. They wanted to fight for their future.
1:03.0	They wanted to fight for the future generations.
1:06.0	And quite frankly, it was amazing.
1:08.0	Determination.
1:10.0	I mean, that's what we see with everybody that we've talked to when we're out on the picket line.
1:16.0	It's determination. You know, everybody's just tired of the corporate greed.
1:22.0	I work two weekends on one weekend off
1:26.0	basically just to make it to where we're comfortable. So I'm having to sacrifice time
1:30.6	with my family to be able to make it to where my family is comfortable.
1:35.0	Boeing has always represented our life.
1:39.0	I mean it was truly a major part of my whole family's life here in the Puget Sound. All while I was growing up, you know,
1:46.4	Boeing represented, you know, that was the ticket to the American dream. For this area, Boeing was it at that time.
1:54.0	Does it still?
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