After rejecting the company's second proposed contract, union members in the St. Louis area began striking Monday. They said they will not stop until they receive a fair deal.

Some 3,200 Boeing workers who build fighter jets in St. Louis and another Missouri site and one in Illinois are on strike, their union says.

(Bloomberg) — Workers at Boeing Co.’s St. Louis-area defense factories are striking for the first time in almost three decades after union members rejected the company’s modified contract offer.