Boeing employees hold strike line on Aug. 5 outside of company facility in Berkeley, Mo. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/The Missouri Independent)

Several hundred Boeing workers cheered Friday afternoon at the St. Louis Music Park in Maryland Heights after learning union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a new contract offered by the company.

“It was jubilant for a minute,” said Boeing assembly mechanic Christy Williams, “and now we’re heading back to the strike line.”

About 3,200 Boeing workers who assemble advanced aircraft and weapons systems at the company’s facilities in St. Louis, St. Charles and Mascoutah, Ill. have been on strike since Aug. 4.

Union members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 voted Friday to reject Boeing’s modified fi

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