An overhead view of completed Boeing aircraft off the assembly line in Renton, Washington. Boeing is facing another strike if an agreement is not reached with the SPEEA machinists’ union by October. (Shutterstock/Thiago B Trevisan)

Boeing Could Soon Face Yet Another Strike

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A machinists’ strike in October would be the third strike for Boeing in as many years—with possible implications for the US military.

The summer of 2026 is beginning to turn to fall, but aerospace and defense giant Boeing appears on track to rewind the clock to 2024 instead.

That year was an annus horribilis for Boeing for a variety of reasons. Early in the year, a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight during takeoff; the pilots were able to land the plane without incident, but the FAA grounded Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 fleet in its aftermath. In July, the company pleaded guilty to deceiving federal investigators about the plane’s readiness ahead of earlier crashes in 2019, but the plea deal was quickly thrown out by a judge. And the company’s much-ballyhooed Starliner dropped a pair of astronauts off at the International Space Station, but was unable to return to pick them up, leaving them stranded for more than nine months before a rocket from rival space firm SpaceX brought them down in March 2025.

Most consequentially for Boeing’s defense business, the summer of 2024 also saw a crippling labor strike at its........

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