By Dan Catchpole

(Reuters) – Striking workers at Boeing Defense rejected the company’s latest contract offer on Friday, sending the stoppage toward its seventh week.

The roughly 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837 went on strike on August 4 after rejecting the company’s previous offer.

The St. Louis-area workers assemble the company’s fighter jets and other military products. Boeing has used non-union workers to limit the effects of the work stoppage.

“Our members in St. Louis have once again shown that they will not settle for Boeing’s half-measures,” IAM International President Brian Bryant said in a statement. “Boeing must start listening to its employees and come back to the table with a meaningful offer that respect

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