ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders called for Boeing to work with IAM Union members to end the months-long strike in St. Louis.

Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders issued a letter to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg calling for the strike to end and Boeing to provide fair provisions.

“What the Machinists in St. Louis are proposing is not radical. It is less generous than the contract you ratified last year with 32,000 Machinists in Washington state,” Sanders wrote. “If Boeing can afford to spend $68 billion on stock buybacks and provide golden parachutes worth over $100 million to former executives, it can afford to provide decent retirement benefits and fair wages to its workers.”

In the letter, Sanders criticized Boeing for terminating health insurance for striking worker

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