Transportation
Boeing Union Balks at Sweetened Pay Offer to Workers
- Planemaker sets Friday deadline to ratify sweetened contract
- Union boss Holden says vote can’t be held at such short notice
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Boeing Co. took a 30% pay-bump proposal directly to striking workers, as the embattled planemaker seeks to chart a path out of a debilitating strike that has shut down factories across the Pacific Northwest for more than a week.
But union negotiators cast aside the possibility of a swift resolution to the impasse, saying they wouldn’t bring the new offer for a vote.