machinist

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Joe Kostka, 71, a retired machinist who paints the trail markers, lined up with his 42-year-old son Tim, who flew in from North Carolina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2025

Mr Olander, a machinist who has worked at Boeing for 11 years, said he is striking because of Boeing’s refusal “to increase our wages along with the economy around us”.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

The last Boeing machinist strike in 2008 lasted eight weeks, securing wage gains and a promise to outsource less plane manufacturing.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2024

Those who were lost represented a cross-section of Baltimore: line cook, lawyer, bus driver, engineer, machinist, teacher, restaurant owner, carpenter, veteran, physician, salesman and admissions coordinator for an addiction recovery center.

From New York Times • May 23, 2024

Shortly after marrying, he began working as an apprentice machinist in a small factory that produced handblown glass bottles of all sizes.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson