After striking IAMAW members voted to reject the latest labor deal by 64%, Boeing is now threatening the union with airline tickets on Boeing aircrafts.
“CEO Kelly Ortberg basically just put a bloody horse head in our beds while we were sleeping,” said union leader Chuck Bradley. “Except in this case it was just an email he sent us overnight about a pair of free, one-way tickets on any airline’s Boeing aircrafts and a pair of printed out Alaska Airlines tickets left on our computer keyboards. We, of course, will stand together until we have pensions again and reject this offer, which is obviously just a death threat.”
Ortberg said the tickets are the company’s best-er-er and final-est offer.
“We’re done playing games with people we refuse to acknowledge are the backbone of not only this company but the entire airline industry when that honor clearly belongs to MBAs who have literally cut corners off these airplanes with their bare hands,” said Ortberg. “The union can accept that offer or we’ll have to show them all the door they’ll see popping off their next flight right before they die – I mean land safely in Portland.”
The Labor Department is looking to help both parties reach a deal when they arrive in Seattle via Amtrak sometime next month.
