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US Senate committee slams Boeing for cutting health care to striking St. Louis workers
A leader of striking union workers at Boeing’s St. Louis-area facilities testified to a Senate committee Wednesday that the cost difference between the company’s offer and union’s ask is half the cost of one F-15 fighter jet
By: Rebecca Rivas
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October 22, 2025 4:01 pm
Democrat and Republican U.S. senators voiced their outrage during a committee hearing Wednesday that Boeing cut off health care to 3,000 striking workers at its St. Louis-area facilities.
And they accused the world’s largest aerospace company of failing to offer its workers a fair contract.
“This is really unbelievable,” said Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, during a meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Josh Arnold, a union member from St. Louis and coordinator for a Boeing program that supports the U.S. Navy’s FA-18 Super Hornets fighter aircraft, told the committee that the workers have been on strike for 12 weeks demanding wage increases and better retirement benefits.
FULL story: https://missouriindependent.com/2025/10/22/us-senate-committee-slams-boeing-for-cutting-health-care-to-striking-st-louis-workers/
Assembly mechanic Christy Williams strikes outside of her employer, Boeing aerospace company, in Berkeley, Mo. She joined 3,200 other union members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who went on strike at midnight on Aug. 4 to get better wages and retirement plans (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent).