With Boeing’s contract with its workers expiring as early as September 16th, 2024, Boeing workers are uniquely positioned in terms of timing. The expiration comes both at the end of this year’s third quarter as well as right before the beginning of U.S. elections for the Presidency. With these two important periods of time largely overlapping, Boeing workers are just in time to influence not only the outcome of Boeing’s fourth quarter results but even the Presidency, two processes for which the decision to prepare not a strike but a general strike are timed to have an exceptional impact on both the company as well as the country.

While Boeing’s fourth quarter results are largely determined by the three preceding periods, workers, who believe that the new contract may be a sell-out, can take advantage of the end of the third quarter as leverage against any or all demands by Boeing with the threat of a strike. A strike would significantly disrupt Boeing’s earning potential in the fourth quarter. Should Boeing seek to impose upon the Boeing workers either by way of collaboration with the pro-corporate trade unions or through sabotage by Federal agents (who routinely infiltrate organized labor movements, big or small, short or long term), workers have the right under the First Amendment to assemble into Rank-and-File Assemblies to raise the call not for a strike but for a general strike.

In a call for a general strike, Boeing workers, whose demands Boeing seeks to subvert for its own profit motives with the help of trade unionists or agents from such anti-labor agencies as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, must reach beyond the broadest layers of the American working class to their class brothers or sisters in fellow industrial bases. The Rank-and-File Assemblies Boeing workers form must reach out to fellow class members in countries throughout the word to expand strike action on the national, international or global scene.

Boeing is among the largest global aerospace manufacturers with yearly revenues exceeding $77 billion. Boeing can easily afford to pay workers much more than the measly 40% workers have since demanded.