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Article: Machinists: We offered Boeing 10-year, no-strike deal 'Betrayed': Workers say Boeing move union-busting, and bad business.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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EVERETT -- Wandering his union's parking lot across the street from Everett's Paine Field, Charlie Grieser clutched his paper coffee cup as he waded through the news crews toward Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon.
Grieser, a Machinists Union member who has been putting airliners together for 32 years at the Boeing Co. plant, didn't need any caffeine to shake off the fall chill. He was fired up by, in his view, his employer's betrayal.
Boeing already took billions in tax credits and handouts, Grieser told Reardon. Now, the company is taking the jobs promised by the 787 program and leaving Washington workers and taxpayers high and dry.
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