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Striking Boeing Workers Miss First Paycheck after Walkout

HeadlineFeb 28, 2000

In Seattle, striking Boeing engineers and technical workers may soon begin feeling the pinch of their walkout in earnest following another collapse in negotiations. The strikers, at least 17,000 out of the 22,600 workers represented by the Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, missed their first paychecks last Thursday. On Wednesday, they must start paying their own health insurance premiums to retain coverage.

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