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_ShovelEnglish
    82•2 months 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

    • @APassenger
      8•2 months ago

      Lol wut?

      I gotta understand that aphorism better…

      But, agree on all points.

    • @[email protected]English
      -16•2 months ago

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

      Gross and stupid take on this.

      • Track_ShovelEnglish
        23•2 months ago

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