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Mechanical engineer Christy Williams strikes outside of her employer, Boeing aerospace company, in Berkeley, Mo. She joined 3,200 other union members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who went on strike at midnight on Sunday to get better wages and retirement plans (Rebecca Rivas\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n

BERKELEY \u2014 Christy Williams stood outside the Boeing facility in St. Louis for hours on Tuesday next to her handwritten sign declaring: \u201cWe aren\u2019t building toasters!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the last three years, Williams and her son have helped build F-15 fighter jets at Boeing in the St. Louis area \u2014 something she called her life\u2019s dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re putting our bodies at risk with the physical and strenuous (work), and on top of all the chemicals and other just the dirty air that we\u2019re in there breathing,\u201d said Williams, an assembly mechanic. \u201cWe signed on for this because we wanted to build the best fighter jet in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, Williams walked out from her job alongside 3,200 workers at Boeing\u2019s three facilities in St. Louis, St. Charles and Mascoutah, Ill., after her fellow members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted Sunday to reject a four-year labor agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a <\/span>union statement<\/span><\/a> announcing the strike, its members \u201cassemble and maintain advanced aircraft and weapons systems, including the F-15, F\/A-18, and cutting-edge missile and defense technologies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chad Stevenson, a plant chairman for the union at the St. Louis facility, said the company\u2019s offer was rejected because it wouldn\u2019t equally benefit the longtime workers who endured pay freezes when the company\u2019s contracts were \u201clean\u201d over the last several years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur members took concessions to help this company and continued to produce the same amount and the same quality of work,\u201d said Stevenson, who works as an assembly mechanic. \u201cSo really it was over eight years, top-scale wasn\u2019t raised. And we\u2019re ready for them to make a competitive, fair offer in these negotiations and take it back before membership and let them decide again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The company issued a <\/span>statement<\/span><\/a> in response to the strike, stating that the employees rejected an offer that \u201cfeatured 40% average wage growth and resolved their primary issue on alternative work schedules.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are prepared for a strike and have fully implemented our contingency plan to ensure our non-striking workforce can continue supporting our customers,\u201d said Dan Gillian, Boeing Air Dominance vice president, general manager and senior St. Louis site executive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Williams called the 40% number \u201ca farce\u201d because it was nearly impossible to meet the criteria to earn it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf everybody was going to get 40%, we would already be on the floor,\u201d she said. \u201cJust quit playing with the math, give us something fair and let us get back to work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The company\u2019s rejected offer<\/a> included a 20% wage increase over four years and $5,000 ratification bonuses. However, top-scale wage earners wouldn\u2019t see that same increase, Stevenson said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a <\/span>fact sheet<\/span><\/a> Boeing posted regarding the labor agreement, entry-level workers making $34.25 per hour could potentially go from making $71,240 to $108,222 annually after the four-year contract.<\/span><\/p>\n

For \u201cmax rate\u201d employees, the growth would go from $95,326 to $110,718 after four years, according to a fact <\/span>sheet<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stevenson said the numbers on the entry-level fact sheet didn\u2019t add up, and the pay progression to get to top-scale pay is much slower than other Boeing sites and other aerospace manufacturers. He explained that in some cases, it takes 20 years to reach top-scale pay, and union members become \u201chighly skilled and versatile\u201d well before that time. The union is looking to decrease the amount of time, he said, which is called auto progression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey act like maybe St Louis is less important, in their opinion,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it is just important to this company. It\u2019s their hub for the defense sector, and it\u2019s also a matter of national security. We build the aircraft and munitions that defend this country with several of our products.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/i> Missouri Democratic state Rep. Doug Clemens of St. Ann spoke with Boeing employees on strike on Aug. 5 outside of company facility in Berkeley \u00a0(Rebecca Rivas\/Missouri Independent).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Democratic state Rep. Doug Clemens, who represents a district that partially includes St. Louis Lambert International Airport, visited with the workers on the picket line on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He told them that his father worked for McDonnell Douglas, which was a major <\/span>aerospace manufacturing<\/span><\/a> corporation and <\/span>defense contractor<\/span><\/a> headquartered in St. Louis and was later acquired by Boeing in 1997.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His father retired shortly after Boeing took over, he said, and the first thing the company did was cut health-care benefits to retirees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as the strike goes, it\u2019s high time to have a strike,\u201d Clemens said. \u201cIt\u2019s high time that Boeing is put in its place when it comes to supporting its own workers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This story was edited at 9:24 a.m. to clarify Christy Williams\u2019 job title.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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