Boeing (NYSE:BA) plans to start hiring permanent replacements for some of the 3,200 hourly workers on strike at its St. Louis defense manufacturing plant, Bloomberg reported Thursday, with no resolution on the horizon for the month-long labor dispute.
Boeing (NYSE:BA) will begin posting openings for some of the positions held by striking union members, and hold a job fair on September 16, Bloomberg reported, citing an internal memo from Dan Gillian, a Boeing VP and the senior executive in St. Louis.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837, who walked off the job a month ago, have twice rejected Boeing’s (BA) offer, which Gillian described as the richest ever presented to workers at its defense factories in Missouri and Illinois.
Boeing (BA) is willing to make “minor adjustments” to its offer, which would raise wages for most workers by ~40% over four years, but union officials have demanded “more across the board, and that isn’t part of how this goes forward,” Gillian said, according to Bloomberg.