Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel.

The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed by the depth of fury among workers who tossed out a 25% pay rise deal and launched strike action.

“They probably didn’t think that we had enough people for the strike,” Kushal Varma, a Boeing mechanic, told Reuters. “But this is a movement of people who are willing to put their livelihoods on the line to get what’s fair.”

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    82
    ·
    edit-2
    23 days ago

    Awww. Those poor bosses. They might have to make some hard choices; kind of like the people they employ who may have to choose between food or rent.

    I realize airline mechanics make half decent money, but still. No sympathy (Edit: for Boeing, if that wasn’t completely clear).

    Now, a proverb a Russian I met early in my career told me: every man is the architect of their own hemhroids I swear the guy was the next Pushkin

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      17
      ·
      edit-2
      23 days ago

      I realize airline mechanics make half decent money, but still. No sympathy.

      Gross and stupid take on this.

      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        23
        ·
        23 days ago

        I think you’re reading me wrong. My lack of sympathy is for Boeing. I’m entirely sympathetic to the mechanics