Troubled Boeing seeks to avoid fresh nightmare with 25% raises amid strike threat
IndependentAUG 2024
While a 25% pay raise sounds nice on its face, many of these workers make $20 per hour or less—which makes 25% a drop in the bucket. Seattle is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, which is why these men and women, who work dangerous factory jobs every day, are fighting to for a living wage for themselves and their families.
While this vote certainly shows that unions still have some power, that won't last forever as technology replaces human labor. Corprations across the country have had to layoff non-union workers, and even some union workers, due to rising costs. And even before technology takes over human labor, American manufacturing companies are beginning to shift their factories to Mexico.
There is a 50% chance that 12.2% of American workers will be represented by a union in 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.