Striking workers' rejection of planemaker Boeing's latest contract offer has created a fresh threat to operations at aerospace suppliers such as family-run Independent Forge.

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.

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

Boeing’s largest union rejected a tentative labor contract on Wednesday by a wide margin, extending a damaging strike and adding to the mounting financial problems facing the company, which hours earlier had reported a $6.

Sixty-four percent of those who voted cast a ballot to reject the proposed deal, which Boeing had hoped would be enough to end a nearly six-week walkout.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing 33,000 striking machinists at Boeing, voted to reject the aerospace giant's latest contract offer, extending a strike that has halted key Boeing production lines.

Boeing's crisis worsens as its machinists' union rejects a new contract, extending a $1 billion-a-month strike.

Boeing factory workers have voted to reject the company’s latest contract offer and to continue a six-week strike that has halted production of the aerospace giant’s bestselling jetliners.

By Daniel Catchpole, Allison Lampert and Matt McKnight SEATTLE (Reuters) -Boeing factory workers voted on Wednesday on a new contract proposal that could end a more than five-week strike, in a crucial moment for the troubled planemaker as it wrestles with a deepening financial crisis.