The vote was 64% in opposition to the deal, which offered a 35% rise in wages over four years.
Boeing had already imposed rolling temporary furloughs, but Ortberg said those will be suspended because of the impending layof
Third-shift workers walked out of Boeing's giant factories at Renton and Everett, Washington, as their contract expired ear
Members of Boeing's biggest union rejected a contract offer by 94.2% and 96% voted to strike.
We decide case by case if workers in a labor dispute qualify for unemployment benefits.