Boeing Defense and a machinists union have reached a tentative deal to end a five-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, union officials said on Sept. 10.
Workers at Boeing’s St. Louis facilities produce F-15 and F/A-18 fighter jets, the T-7A Red Hawk trainer, and various advanced weapons systems for the US military.
“The five-year tentative agreement includes improvements to general wage increases and restores a signing bonus,” the union said in a Sept. 10 post on X.
Boeing’s latest contract proposal comes after continued negotiations since Aug. 4, when about 3,200 union members in the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837 went on strike over conditions in a previous offer. That contract was turned down by 67 percent of the members, who are among those assembling Boeing fighter jets at facilities in Berkeley and St. Charles in Missouri, and Mascoutah in Illinois….