The Boeing Strike is About More Than Money

Seattle Met

Another 737 MAX machinist who’s been on the job for two-and-a-half years—and who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation—says that, despite Boeing’s slogan to “speak up,” some managers will move workers or change them to a different shift if they do, in fact, speak up…

That fear has compounding effects, Evans adds. “There’s people who see that other people are getting retaliated against: They see that their coworkers are not getting justice for it, and so it prevents them from speaking up,” he says. “As a result, you just have a lot of perpetuating incompetence.”

“Perpetuating incompetence” doesn’t bode well for an aircraft manufacturer already mired in safety lapses and federal investigations. It puts workers in danger on the job, and can spell doom for people flying in those aircraft. Outliving picketers’ soggy signs or the embers of their burn barrels, these ongoing defects may seriously hamper new Boeing President and CEO Kelly Ortberg’s stated efforts to revamp the aerospace giant’s long-term prospects through a “fundamental culture change.”

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