Employees at Boeing 737 supplier approve labor deal, ending strike

Employees at Boeing 737 supplier approve labor deal, ending strike


An aerial watch of the engines and fuselage of an unpainted Boeing 737 MAX airplane parked in storage at King County Intercontinental Airport-Boeing Area in Seattle, Washington, June 1, 2022.

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Employees at Boeing aircraft areas provider Spirit Aerosystems accepted a new labor deal on Thursday, setting the stage to resume production at a Wichita, Kansas, facility following a operate stoppage very last 7 days.

Spirit Aerosystems, which provides fuselages for Boeing’s most effective-marketing 737 Max plane as properly as other sections for Boeing and other brands, halted production previous Thursday just after employees voted from a new proposed contract and in favor of a strike.

The business and the workers’ union, the Worldwide Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, achieved a new tentative agreement for the 6,000 workers, the union stated on Tuesday.

“This settlement addresses our members’ issues with sizeable wage increases, maintaining the Core health care system gains that the membership insisted on, and consists of no mandatory additional time,” the union explained Tuesday.

Employees would return on July 5.

The manufacturing pause arrived as Boeing scrambles to raise output of new aircraft. The organization went into the strike with an inventory of some fuselages to continue on producing.



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