machinist
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The story begins in Boston, at the close of the Civil War, when machinist Ira Steward penned a pamphlet called “The Eight Hour Movement.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 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
His father, Luis, an immigrant from Honduras, was a machinist.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
Since our machinist needed at least three days merely to turn out the more simple phosphorus atoms, I went back to Clare after lunch to hammer out the final draft of my genetics manuscript.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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