Seattle Some 33,000 workers represented by the International Association of Machinists walked out of Boeing’s Seattle and Portland plants on July 17 to demonstrate their will to strike. The workers have experienced cutbacks, layoffs, union-busting and all-around attacks on their standard of livin

Boeing has been exposed by both whistleblower workers and consumers after two mass casualty MAX plane crashes and a huge number of hazardous defects found in many of its planes.

The manufacturing problems can all be traced back to Boeing’s anti-labor program. The defects are caused by speedups, thousands of layoffs and forced retirements of experienced workers, outsourcing to the lowest bidders and more.

Palestinian and student movements have demanded that Boeing quit selling bombs, F-15 bombers, Apache Helicopters and more to [neocolonialism] for war against Palestinians. Boeing profits from genocidal war against Palestine at the same time that it is involved in vicious union-busting attacks on its workers.

When this basic connection is made clear to Boeing workers, there will be a strong basis for unity among the multinational working class to attack the company for all its crimes.

Boeing made $23.6 billion in profit last year and is predicted to be profitable again in 2024. Following the struggles of the UAW and a recharged labor movement, the workers are showing they are ready to fight back.