By Joel Rose
Source: KPBS
At a rally here this month, machinists union vice president Gary Allen addressed a hall full of striking Boeing workers.
“When I’m out on the picket line, I ask everybody, what is the strike about to you?,” he said.
Allen didn’t even have a chance to answer his own question before the machinists in the room interrupted.
“Pension! Pension! Pension!,” they chanted.
Pensions are a major sticking point between Boeing and the union. The machinists want the company to restore the traditional pension plan they lost a decade ago. But Boeing hasn’t budged.