Striking Boeing workers are voting on a new contract offer as the company reports a $6 billion loss

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Boeing factory workers were voting Wednesday whether to accept a contract offer that includes big pay raises but lacks a traditional pension plan, or to continue a strike that has crippled the company's airplane production for nearly six weeks.Voting began just hours after Boeing reported losing $6.2 billion in the third quarter, largely because of huge write-downs in both its aircraft and defense businesses.

Ortberg repeated in a message to employees and on the earnings call that he wants to “reset” management’s relationship with labor “so we don’t become so disconnected in the future.” He said company leaders need to spend more time on factory floors to know what is going on and “prevent the festering of issues and work better together to identify, fix, and understand root cause.

 

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