Sherri Pelz was a Beechcraft employee before it was bought out of bankruptcy by Textron and merged with Cessna Aircraft. Former Beechcraft employees work under a different retirement plan than those who worked at Cessna at the time of the merger. She had a pension plan, for example.

Textron Aviation and the union representing machinists on strike will return to the negotiating table on Thursday, three weeks into the strike which began after members overwhelmingly rejected the company’s contract offer.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The strike at Textron Aviation continues. It is now in its third week.

Textron Aviation workers on the picket lines, last Tuesday, outside of the aviation manufacturing company's east Wichita campus. More than 70% of Textron Aviation Machinists voted on Sept. 21 to reject a four-year contract offer, and then approved a strike with nearly 82% of the vote.

Striking workers on the picket lines received support from the president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).