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(a) PAY Machinist pay starts at $37,000 and increases to $67,000 after 6 years.
(b) RETIREMENT Machinists receive a company-funded pension.
(c) HEALTH CARE Machinists receive company-paid health insurance with a $200 annual deductible.
(d) COST-OF-LIVING RAISES Machinists receive an annual raise tied to the increase in cost-of-living (currently about 2%).

(a) PAY Machinist pay starts at $37,000 and increases to $67,000 after 12 years.
(b) RETIREMENT Machinists receive a company-matched 401K that would cost each member $300/month in contributions to approximate pension plan.
(c) HEALTH CARE Machinists will be downgraded to a health insurance plan that mirrors Obamacare.
(d) COST-OF-LIVING RAISES Machinists will receive an annual raise of 1% regardless of increase in cost-of-living.

saxitoxin wrote: South Carolinians aren't capable of building airplanes.

Guess who was standing there with Inslee at the signing ceremony? None other than our fearless I.A.M. President Tom Wroblewski. Piece of crap? Did you get another suitcase full of money today too? You are not a leader. You are right there with the Boeing executives. Right along with the international telling us we have to vote on this B.S. We are ready to call all of your bluffs.

Wroblewski, you suck! Your days are numbered as our President. I cannot wait for the next election. You are one pathetic sell out son of a bitch!

I wonder how much are vote really means now. I have this odd feeling even if everyone votes no, they'll still come out and say we voted in favor for it.

We don't even have union eligibility cards for this BS staged vote. Are they planning to look through 20,000 names at the door before I get my little piece of paper to put a check mark on (NO) to drop in a garbage can. Tom Wroblewski and his Boeing buddies have already counted the votes. I don't trust them or the results of this so called vote.

Our union will be broken from our own backstabbing leaders. Thanks a lot for lining your pockets with our monthly dues and then bending us over.

... some 300 to 400 militant Machinists, led by local union officials, rallied outside the Everett union hall to shout out a resounding rejection of the contract offer that will be voted on Wednesday.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesste ... tsxml.html

“I am going to hold you [Wroblewski] and the international accountable for ruining me. With 24 years in service, and seven years of layoffs, at age 54 and of failing health, I depended absolutely on those last few years of pension accruals, which in no way will I be able to make up under the new plan with company contributions. Your buddies at the International, the politicians, and the company are who you work for, not us, not me. You will take our money and abandon us. I’m voting no, then I’m done with 751, the IAM [International Association of Machinists], and you. Unity is over, solidarity is finished, our principals sacrificed to politics and corporate profits.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/1 ... i-n12.html

One young Machinist, just two years at the company, said that when union officials showed up in his area to hand out fliers with details of the offer, they were swarmed by Machinists thrusting fingers in their faces. Some tore up the fliers on the spot.

notyou2 wrote:So, how did you vote Saxi? Are you going to keep building airplanes?

Ignoring warnings from Boeing and pleas from political leaders, members of the Machinists union Wednesday voted 2-to-1 to reject a contract offer that would have ensured the company builds the new 777X jet in Washington state.

But there was also anger at the union leadership for pushing the offer to a vote.

After Wroblewski and IAM national aerospace coordinator Mark Johnson announced the result at the Seattle union hall, the two were loudly booed by the several hundred Machinists present.

Wroblewswki retreated hastily to his office, trailed by loud insults as he walked briskly along. Then a message came down to waiting journalists that he would not speak to the media as had been previously arranged.