<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><A href="">http://www.kirotv.com/news/4924300/detail.html</A> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B class=Dateline>SEATTLE -- </B>Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union who work for the Boeing Company have voted 86 percent in favor of going out on strike.</DIV> <P></P> <DIV>The strike will affect about 18,400 machinists who assemble Boeing's commercial airplanes and some key components in the Seattle area, Wichita, Kansas, and Gresham, Oregon.</DIV> <P></P> <DIV>The machinists are the workers who assemble Boeing's commercial jetliners.</DIV> <P></P> <DIV>The 86 percent vote was well in excess of the two-thirds margin needed to create a strike. </DIV> <DIV>__________</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Last time around, the contract was accepted by default getting just short of the 2/3rds.  Other aerospace contracts here in Wichita have had the same fate.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Only about 1,000 of the 18,000 are here in Wichita.  Others were spun off to Onex/Spirit.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stuart Elliott</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://newappeal.blogspot.com/">http://newappeal.blogspot.com/</A><BR><A href="http://www.ksworkbeat.org">www.ksworkbeat.org</A></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>