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

His father, Murry, was a musician and a machinist; his mother, Audree, a homemaker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 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

The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote