The 2025 strike by workers at Boeing's defense plants in the Midwest
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
About 3,200 machinists at three Boeing defense plants in the St. Louis area and the Midwest, where workers build fighter jets and weapons systems, went on strike on August 4, 2025, after rejecting proposed contracts.[1][2][3]They rejected further offers in September and October before approving a five-year agreement on November 13 that included a 24% raise over the contract and a $6,000 signing bonus.[4][5][3]
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They rejected further offers in September and October before approving a five-year agreement on November 13 that included a 24% raise over the contract and a $6,000 signing bonus.[4][5][3]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
16%0%
Jul 20252026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 1 more outlet off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (7 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Nov 10, 2025
1
4
1
6 of 188
3%
Oct 27, 2025
2
5
2
9 of 174
5%
Oct 20, 2025
2
3
1
6 of 194
3%
Sep 8, 2025
5
3
1
9 of 214
4%
Aug 4, 2025
10
18
4
32 of 194
16%
Jul 28, 2025
3
6
3
12 of 187
6%
Jul 21, 2025
2
1
1
4 of 190
2%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Nov 12, 2025 · first reported · Headline from Digital Journal
The union said its members voted down a first proposal in July and a modified four-year deal in early August.[1][2] The strike went on for more than three months as members rejected another proposal in September and the company's latest offer in October.[4][5] The 2024 strike by Boeing's commercial machinists is followed in a separate arc.
