EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Visit a Boeing doer's picket mark expecting to detect hundreds of workers worried relative to putting bread on the table because they were driven to hit by an uncaring employer and you might be surprised.

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Boeing strikes are different. There is a sense of ritual, a sagacity that this happens every few years — and that as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but the company and the workers understand that in a few weeks they will extend a compromise and be back building planes.

And while some workers determine report of the harshness felt toward the company about the outsourcing of work and about contributions on account of health care, some furthermore will tell you this is a great opportunity to do drudge on their houses or even to go chase. in the forests of Washington category.

Ron Strempel, for example, has worked at Boeing Co (BA.N) for 20 years, been through eight contract negotiations with companionship management and is now standing on a strike stake line with regard to the fourth time considering 1988.

An electrician and team leader adhering Boeing's 767 assembly line in Everett, Washington, Strempel said he has lived through enough work stoppages to know that the stand-off will be resolved eventually and sees the strike, which started on Saturday, as a much-needed break from a busy factory schedule.

"I've got a to-do list a mile long-winded," said Strempel, noting that he has neglected projects around the house while racking up extra hours due to Boeing's backlog of orders. "I used to get worked up about it, but now I know how these things act."

Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) are locked in a dispute over wage increases, hale condition care contributions and the company's outsourcing policy in the nearest three-year contract.

If a clash stretches from days into weeks, the impact at Boeing — at the cost of $100 million a day — will begin to reverberate to the company's suppliers around the world. Nearly 27,000 Boeing machinists, mostly in the Puget Sound tract, besides will feel the sting.

However, the around-the-clock picket lines external the main Seattle-area factories were sparsely attended over the weekend and on Monday.

While no one is ready to predict that anger won't increase whether the beat extends beyond several weeks, currently the atmosphere is surprisingly civil.

TIME TO HUNT

Some picketers said union leadership's decision to detention a work stoppage by the agency of 48 hours sapped a narrow of the initial enthusiasm for a penetrate, while others cited not the same factor: hunting season.

"We don't take this lightly, but some the million vote to strike exact to induce more time off. It's chase. period of the year," said Richard McCabe, 38, a wing-line mechanic in Renton, who added that the overtime work is vexation its toll steady the rank-and-file.

Hunting period concerning some game birds and deer started September 1 in Washington state. Elk hunting started on Monday.

"I voted 'not any' fair to get a vacation. You work a division of hours and you just get tired," declared assembly-line mechanic Brian Gross, 46, referring to Wednesday's vote on whether to accept Boeing's "best and last" offer.

His wife, Julie, a massage school owner, said she will make essay to make up the shortfall while Brian is out of work: "I'm going to moil a lot and he's going to go hunting."

To be sure, there will be many workers like Juanita Peek, who has been with the company for 18 months, who expects to be on the picket line every day, because she sees the company's offer as a case of corporate greed unobstructed.

"We're building airplanes. We're not fabric Tonka toys," said Peek, who, as a new employ, is not as financially secure as the veterans. "It's the executives that are insatiable."

The IAM is offering to pay strikers a nuncupatory $150 per week if a run on goes into a third week, but workers lose their normal health-care coverage after a month.

For more than a year, the union has also been instructing workers to spasmodic effort saving money for the possibility of a strike. The IAM has been scheduling members for picketing duty in four hour intervals, under which circumstances others voluntarily show up for support.

Some Boeing veterans meet with the strike as every inevitable consequence in the constant tug-of-war between the union and assembly management that takes place every three years and they try not to take it too seriously.

"We have drollery. We play golf. We go fishing. It's a holidays," said Sung Y Yu, a quality critic on the 747 ancestry and 19-year Boeing veteran. "It's good to spend time with the family."

While no one is ready to predict that anger won't increase if the strike extends beyond several weeks, currently the atmosphere is surprisingly polite.

Newer Boeing employees can not adopt such a casual attitude. Since average, new machinists start at $12.72 an hour, it was hard for various recent hires to save a lot of money especially with shrill gasoline prices and rising food costs.

The most experienced machinists of the identical grade can make up to $28.06 an hour.

Sy Sias, who joined Boeing less than three years ago, related he is a subordinate part of several unions and he plans to find work through one of them.

"I'll be looking for other work," said Sias, who works on the company's flight line preparing aircraft for delivery. "I straightforward hope it's not going to be a long-winded strike."

(Writing by Daisuke Wakabayashi; Editing by Martin Howell and Carol Bishopric)