For Boeing workers, 777X is a gamble

摘要

For Boeing assembly workers in the company's Seattle area heartland, this week holds a career dilemma. If members of the IAM union vote to accept changes to their retirement benefits, the airframer will guarantee 777X wing production and assembly work in the Puget Sound region, plus give them a long-term labour contract. If they vote "no", 10,000 jobs linked to the programme could leave the state.