Last week, Boeing workers overwhelming by a 64% margin to reject a proposed union contract. Now, the strike involving more than 33,000 Machinists Union members in the Pacific Northwest will continue.
Despite the strike entering its second month, Vice President Kamala Harris has not walked the picket line at Boeing like Biden during the historic UAW “Stand Up Strike”. Instead, Harris has merely issued a statement of support.
While the strike is taking place primarily in Washington State, which is not a battleground state, union activists are pushing Vice President Harris. They say that it will resonate in battelground states like Pennsylvania
Joshua Boring is a member of the Machinists union in Erie, Pennsylvania. He says that his co-workers are closing following the Boeing strike.
“Every day, we're putting out news articles and putting them in the break rooms. And the latest Boeing proposal was just voted down, and people were like, “Yeah, all right”, Boring told Payday Report. “Even the people that I know are Trump voters, they're excited that the workers are actually standing up the Boeing rejecting and their offer after years of being just not compensated fairly”.
Boring says that Kamala Harris could make a big statement that she was on the side of workers if she choose to walk the picket line at Boeing.
“If Kamala Harris walked the picket line in Washington with the I am workers, it would for sure help with labor votes,” says Boring.
(Be sure to also check out Melk on Hill TV questioning the political logic behind Kamala not walking the picket line at Boeing)
