Boeing receives more heat from Congress to settle St. Louis strike

Source: KSDK

Five Democratic senators pilloried the plan for replacement workers as potentially putting the nation’s military at risk.

Author: Rebecca Rivas (Missouri Independent)
Published: 12:22 PM CST November 4, 2025

ST. LOUIS — Boeing’s decision to use replacement workers to complete fighter jet projects in St. Louis has once again put the company at odds with members of the U.S. Senate.

Three months after union workers walked off the job on strike, five Democratic senators pilloried the plan for replacement workers as potentially putting the nation’s military at risk.

“For existing projects, such as the F-15 Eagle and the F/A-18 Hornet, you are also unnecessarily endangering our warfighters by insisting on proceeding with an untrained and hastily recruited workforce,” says a letter the senators sent Tuesday to Boeing’s President and CEO Kelly Ortberg.

It was signed by U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaii and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan.


Credit: Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent
Boeing Defense workers on strike rally on Oct. 1 at the IAM Union Hall in Hazelwood (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent).

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