The Boeing Co. Machinists’ strike is over after union members on Saturday voted to accept the company’s latest contract offer.
About 74 percent of voting Machinists approved Boeing’s four-year labor deal, 57 days into a labor strike that shut down jet production at the company’s factories across the Puget Sound region. Nearly 27,000 Machinists, who have been on strike since Sept. 6, will be back building Boeing jets within the next week.
Machinists had rejected Boeing’s previous contract citing issues with wages, pension, health care and job security. On Monday, leaders for Boeing and the union tentatively agreed on the new contract, which includes a 15 percent wage increase over four years, a minimum of $8,000 in individual bonuses and a boost in pension. The contract also freezes the health care plan at 2005 levels and guarantees 5,000 union positions in materials handling and maintenance work over the next four years.
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