Over 2,000 Boeing Defense Workers to Go on Strike in August After Rejecting Contract Deal

FILE - Traffic drives in view of a Boeing Co. production plant, where images of jets decorate the hangar doors on April 23, 2021, in Everett, Wash. Roughly 2,500 Boeing workers are expected to go on strike the following month at three plants in the St. Louis area after they voted Sunday, July 24, 2022, to reject a contract offer from the plane maker. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File

Approximately 2,500 members of a union that represents three Boeing Co. defense locations in Missouri are set to go on strike next month after they voted to reject the plane maker’s contract offer.

The International Association of Machinists (IAM) and Aerospace Workers District 837 confirmed the planned strike, which comes after weeks of bargaining, in a statement on July 24.