> A lot of people here seem justifiably angry at Boeing management's total destruction of an engineering corporate culture. It's unclear to me if fixing that is what the machinists are demanding or if they just want normal union things like being paid more and working less.
Let's not be naive here. People are going to strike on what they are incentivized to strike on. Not the goodness of their hearts.
They should want to influence the company to ensure they can keep their jobs, at the higher pay they want, indefinitely. There's a clear incentive: without the corporate culture fixed, they'll go from on strike to laid off when Boeing goes bankrupt before they can get the full raise.
Let's not be naive here. People are going to strike on what they are incentivized to strike on. Not the goodness of their hearts.