Boeing machinists accept labor contract, ending 7-week strike

Boeing's 33,000 unionized machinists connected Wednesday voted to o.k. nan level manufacturer's latest statement offer, ending a seven-week onslaught that had halted accumulation of astir of nan company's rider planes.

The national said 59% voted to judge nan contract. Members person nan action of returning to activity arsenic soon arsenic Wednesday, but must beryllium backmost astatine activity by Tuesday, November 12, nan national said successful a statement.

Union leaders had strongly urged members to ratify nan latest proposal, which would boost wages by 38% complete nan four-year life of nan contract, up from a projected summation of 35% that members of nan International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) had rejected past month.

The revised woody besides provides a $12,000 rate prize to hourly workers and accrued contributions to status savings plans. The enhanced connection doesn't reside a cardinal sticking constituent successful nan contentious talks — restoration of pensions — but Boeing would raise its contributions to worker 401K plans.

Average yearly salary for machinists, now $75,608, would climb to $119,309 successful 4 years nether nan existent offer, Boeing said. 

The ballot came aft IAM members successful September and October rejected lesser offers by nan Seattle-based aerospace giant.

"In each speech and strike, location is simply a constituent wherever we person extracted everything we tin successful bargaining and by withholding our labor," nan International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers stated last week successful backing Boeing's revised offer. "We are astatine that constituent now and consequence a regressive aliases lesser connection successful nan future." 

Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su has played an progressive domiciled successful nan negotiations, aft precocious helping to end a days-long walkout that concisely closed East and Gulf Coast ports. 

The Boeing onslaught that began connected Sept. 13 marked nan latest setback for nan manufacturing giant, which has been nan attraction of aggregate national probes aft a doorway plug blew off a 737 Max level during an Alaska Airlines formation successful January. The incident revived concerns astir nan information of nan craft aft 2 collapsed wrong 5 months successful 2018 and 2019, sidesplitting 346 people. 

Boeing successful July agreed to plead blameworthy to conspiracy to perpetrate fraud for deceiving regulators who approved nan 737 Max. 

During nan strike, Boeing was incapable to nutrient immoderate caller 737 aircraft, which are made astatine nan company's assembly plants successful nan Seattle area. One awesome Boeing jet, nan 787 Dreamliner, is manufactured astatine a nonunion mill successful South Carolina. 

The institution past period reported a third-quarter loss of $6.1 billion.  

The Associated Press contributed to this report.