It also includes a ratification bonus, as well as improved retirement and health care benefits, and overtime rules.
After seven weeks on strike, Boeing workers voted Monday to ratify a new contract that includes a 43.65% wage increase over four years — a significant improvement over the 25% increase that the aerospace giant offered in September.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Districts 751 and W24 approved the contract in a 59%-41% vote around two weeks after rejecting a tentative deal that called for a 35% pay increase over a four-year period.
The contract approved by workers also includes a $12,000 ratification bonus, improvements to retirement and healthcare benefits, and improved overtime rules.
“Strikes work,” labor journalist Kim Kelly wrote in response to the contract vote.
Amazing, the 35% ‘best and last’ offer Boeing offered 3 times wasn’t actually the best and last, and collective bargaining exceeded the 40% pay raise the union set out for.
Union strong, bitches.