Boeing workers have voted 59 per cent in favour of ending their strike and returning to work, paving the way for the troubled manufacturer’s Washington factories to start making planes again.
The workers on Monday accepted a 38 per cent pay raise over the next four years, representing a significant win for the 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751. The company originally offered 25 per cent before employees walked off the job nearly eight weeks ago.
The union’s bargaining team, which endorsed the deal on Saturday and said it was time to settle the strike, called it “one of the strongest contracts in the aerospace industry”.