ST. LOUIS – Striking St. Louis-area Boeing workers remained at odds with management late this week as big names visited the picket line.

Brian Bryant, president of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, traveled to St. Louis to meet with striking workers Thursday.

“We as the union are prepared and ready to go back to negotiate. And the ball is in Boeing’s court,” Bryant told the Post-Dispatch.

The workers also received a visit from St. Louis’ congressman, U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell, a Democrat.

Bryant said Bell and Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, are both urging Boeing to return to the negotiating table.

Bryant wrote to members of Missouri’s congressional delegation last week urging the elected officials to intervene in the machinists’ strike.

Bryant said he had heard

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