One month into strike, Boeing Defense stands by its last contract offer

By Dan Catchpole

(Reuters) -Boeing Defense said Wednesday it would consider “minor adjustments” to its last contract offer to roughly 3,200 union members on strike in the St. Louis area, where it produces fighter jets and munitions.

“The economics of our deal will remain the same,”  Dan Gilliam, Boeing Defense’s top executive in St. Louis, told reporters on a conference call.

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ District 837 rejected the offer on Aug. 3. They went on strike the next day.

(Reporting by Dan Catchpole in Seattle.)