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The strike will end and now it's our job to get back to work and start building the airplanes, increase the rates and bring this company back to financial success,
Holden said at a news conference
Good contracts benefit workers, businesses, and consumers -- and are key to growing the American economy from the middle out and the bottom up,
Biden saidWe will only move forward by listening and working together. There is much work ahead to return to the excellence that made Boeing an iconic company,
Ortberg said
Boeing is a tragic case. Almost everything they touch turns to poison,
the Hungarian-American billionaire businessman and executive chairman of Air Lease Corporation — one of Boeing's biggest customers — told DWBoeing is an airplane company and at the right time in the future we need to develop a new airplane. But we have a lot of work to do before then,
he saidIt clearly puts pressure on management in other parts of the business because the workforce will look at what IAM is achieving as a result of being unionized,
another Boeing insider said, asking not to be identified on internal matters
It’s really easy to be critical of the guy, but I don’t think its fair because he hasn’t been there very long,
said Ron Epstein, Bank of America analyst
Effectively, remaining in business has consumed their ability to raise capital and they have not been left with much leeway to raise more to develop a new airplane later,
said Nick Cunningham, an analyst at investment research group Agency PartnersThey undermined us from the beginning,
Andre Johnstone, a materials manager at the Everett plant, told Reuters shortly after voting against the latest contract
He came in and talked about changing the culture. He's not changing the culture at all,
said Cory Thompson, a 47-year-old paint-quality inspector in Boeing's vast Everett factoryDo they want to sabotage the company’s future? Are they pushing Boeing into bankruptcy?"
he saidFor many frontline Boeing workers in the IAM Union, the terms of this contract will be life-changing,
said Gary R. Allen, general vice president of IAM Western Territory
Over the last four years, we've shown collective bargaining works,
President Joe Biden saidA contract like this sends an inspiring message to all workers in the United States who are seeking to join unions or who have been shortchanged by their employer,
said IAM International President Brian Bryant
Washington is home to the world’s most skilled aerospace workers, and they understandably took a stand for the respect and compensation they deserve,
Inslee said in a statement congratulating the workers
I'm extremely pumped over this vote,
said Gardiner, who has worked for Boeing for 13 yearsEven for a company the size of Boeing, it is a life-threatening problem,
said Gautam Mukunda, lecturer at the Yale School of ManagementThey'd lose some earnings but they'd get a lot of cash to reduce their debt,
he addedThere are lots of nasty questions in terms of complexities that go into revamping the supply chain,
he saidThis contract will have a positive and generational impact on the lives of workers at Boeing and their families,
Holden and Bryant said in their statement