(Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders urged Boeing in a letter sent on Wednesday to end the eight-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, where it produces fighters, munitions and other military aircraft.

“Do the right thing,” Sanders said in his letter to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg.

The letter was sent the same day Sanders and other senators used a Senate committee nomination review hearing to slam Boeing’s behavior during the strike.

About 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 went on strike on August 4.

(Reporting by Dan Catchpole in Seattle, Editing by Chris Reese)

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