No end for Boeing strike as US workers reject 35% pay rise offer

Boeing employee Gina Forbush reacts to the announcement that union members voted to reject a new contract offer from the company (Lindsey Wasson/AP)

Boeing factory workers in the US voted against the company’s latest contract offer and remain on the picket lines six weeks into a strike that has stopped production of the aerospace giant’s best-selling jetliners.

Local union leaders in Seattle said 64% of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who cast ballots on Wednesday voted against accepting the contract offer.