Boeing strike: bosses bruised, blindsided and on brink of crisis

Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. "They probably didn't think that we had enough people for the strike," Kushal Varma, a Boeing mechanic, told Reuters. A week ago, Boeing executives believed they'd done enough to secure the pay deal with around 33,000 workers in Washington state, the heart of the company's global manufacturing operations, according to two people directly involved in the talks that have played out at Seattle's upscale Westin hotel.