Boeing's 33,000 workers reject pay deal, announce a strike

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: Nearly 33,000 workers stepped off Boeing's assembly line on September 12 at its factories near Seattle and elsewhere after union members voted overwhelmingly to go on strike and reject a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25 percent over four years.

The strike started one minute after midnight PDT, less than three hours after the local branch of the International Associati