The strike on Boeing is over; Amazon employees protest against returning to the office

Boeing factory workers voted to accept a contract offer and end a strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the company to restart idled Pacific Northwest assembly lines.

33,000 striking Boeing machinists broke up their picket lines late Monday after leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Seattle district said 59% of union members who voted agreed to approve the company’s fourth formal proposal, which included a 38-year wage increase. % compared to the previous year. four years.

Union machinists assemble the 737 Max, Boeing’s best-selling airliner, as well as the 777 jet, or Tri-Seven, and the 767 freighter at plants in Renton and Everett, Washington. Restarting production will allow Boeing to generate much-needed cash that the company has been draining.

The union said its workers could return to work as early as Wednesday or as early as November 12.

Amazon employees protest against returning to the office

More than 500 employees at Amazon’s cloud computing division have asked the company to reconsider its five-day stay-at-home order, which is due to take effect in January.

In a letter sent to Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman last Wednesday, 523 employees protested the upcoming return to the office and called on Amazon executives to restore remote work flexibility.

“By taking these actions, AWS is not realizing its full potential and creates a bleak outlook for its future,” the letter, published by The Seattle Times, said. “While it is true that there are challenges with flexible and remote working, we have always been a company that solves problems in new, exciting and innovative ways, rather than relying on outdated approaches that worked well in the past.