The company is unable to produce Air Force fighter jets during the strike.

BY REUTERS

Workers picket outside the Boeing Defense, Space & Security facility in Berkeley, Missouri, US, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. About 3,200 Boeing Co. machinists walked off the job Monday during the first strike in nearly three decades at the company’s St. Louis-area defense factories. Photo: Getty Images

Striking workers at Boeing Defense in the St. Louis area rejected the company’s latest contract proposal on Sunday, sending a strike that has already delayed delivery of fighter jets and other programs into its 13th week.

In a statement after the vote, union leadership said the company had failed to address the needs of the roughly 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837.

“Boeing claimed they listened to their employees the result of today’s vote proves they have not,” IAM International President Brian Bryant said in a statement. “Boeing’s corporate executives continue to insult the very people who build the world’s most advanced........

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