You know who truly, viscerally groks this? Machinists. As I’ve blathered on about at length previously, machine tools are all about precision. That’s easy to say, but where does precision ...

Late Thursday, a large majority of the company’s 33,000 machinists rejected a new contract proposal, and approved a strike action that started Friday. The walkout further disrupts already ...

Contract negotiations between Boeing and the striking machinists union will resume Monday, according to reporting from KIRO Newsradio. Bobbie Egan, senior media relations manager for Boeing said ...

RENTON — The atmosphere of the Boeing Machinists’ first day on strike was joyful, as thousands of union workers spent the day picketing outside quieted airplane factories around the Puget ...

Machinists like to live on the edge, but they always want to know precisely where it is. If you’ve watched any machining videos (*cough*) then you’ve seen heavy use of digital readouts on ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Hundreds of Boeing machinists walked out of the factory in Everett during their break Wednesday morning in protest of anew tentative contract deal from the airplane maker.

Regarding your editorial on the Boeing strike (“Machinists Strike While Boeing Is Weak,” Sept. 17): Our members are striking to achieve respect, job security and fair pay. They are trying to ...

The strike by 33,000 machinists was expected to halt the manufacture of Boeing's best-selling airliners, and is yet another setback for a company already awash in financial losses and damage to ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Machinists at Boeing voted Thursday to go on strike, another setback for the giant aircraft maker whose reputation and finances have been battered and now faces a shutdown in ...

Boeing said 33,000 workers represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers would get pay raises of 25% over the four-year contract, with average wages rising 33% ...

GRESHAM, Ore. — More than 30,000 Boeing machinists are on strike across America, including more than 1,200 in Oregon. Dozens were on the picket lines outside the Gresham facility, starting ...