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

All around him, workers are cutting the leather into the right shape to hand it to the machinist.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

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

His parents had been sharecroppers who moved north and became a machinist and a nurse.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times