Being offered the next airplane is a bit of a red herring since the non union South Carolina plant has a track record of bad deliveries and some sales contracts

Being offered the next airplane is a bit of a red herring since the non union South Carolina plant has a track record of bad deliveries and some sales contracts forbid aircraft being delivered that are built there amongst larger quality issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_South_Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_South_Carolina So yes this is a win for them. Being paid properly for your time is likely an issue everyone here agrees with when it’s their pay on the line. Boeing has huge contracts and is the go to for the US Military Industrial Complex. They have plenty of contracts on hand to bring in revenue as they figure themselves out. Their ability to create problems has been clearly shown to be a tone at the top problem combined with bad management decisions that has lead to poor product delivery, regulatory missteps, and the design shortcuts that lead to accidents that brought on their most recent cycle of pain. A lathe operator has no impact on those decisions whether she is paid $20 or $27 per hour.