The vote, hours after Boeing reported a $6.1 billion loss, will extend a nearly six-week-long strike at factories where the company makes its best-selling commercial plane.

Boeing's leaders have few options as the the Machinists' strike extends. A settlement is needed to stave off further financial distress and damage to suppliers.

The Boeing strike continued into its sixth week as the labor union rejected Boeing's contract offer, further halting production.

Since going on strike last month, Boeing factory workers have repeated one theme from their picket lines: They want their pensions back.Boeing froze its traditional pension plan as part of concessions that union members narrowly voted to make a decade ago in exchange for keeping production of the company's airline planes in the Seattle area.

Before it can get on the long path to recovery, the aerospace giant needs to get workers back in its factories.

The workers voted against a new labor deal and will extend a six-week strike.

The strike by 33,000 workers at Boeing will continue after rank-and-file union members rejected an offer from the company and decided to remain on the picket lines instead.

Boeing factory workers voted against the company’s latest contract offer and will remain on the picket lines six weeks into a strike.

Boeing’s machinists on Wednesday voted to reject a contract offer that would have ended their strike, which has now dragged on for more than a month. Roughly 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Districts 751 and W24,