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Boeing Defense and union reach tentative deal to end strike in St. | |
Louis area | |
By Reuters | |
Updated: | |
7:24 PM EDT, Wed September 10, 2025 | |
Source: Reuters | |
Boeing Defense and the machinists union have reached a tentative deal | |
to end a five-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, union officials | |
announced on Wednesday. | |
A vote on Boeing’s five-year contract offer is scheduled for Friday, | |
according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace | |
Workers. | |
IAM District 837’s roughly 3,200 members, who assemble Boeing fighter | |
jets, after voting 67% to reject the company’s last contract | |
proposal. | |
“We’ve found a path forward on a five-year contract offer that | |
grows wages by 45% on average,” Boeing Defense Vice President Dan | |
Gillian said in a statement. “It remains the best deal we’ve ever | |
offered to IAM 837, and we encourage our team to vote yes so we can get | |
back to work building amazing products for our customers.” | |
The deal includes a 24% general wage increase over five years and a | |
$4,000 ratification bonus, among other terms. | |
The previous offer was for four years and included a 20% wage increase | |
and a $5,000 bonus. The deal would have raised compensation by 40% on | |
average, according to the company. | |
“They didn’t really offer more, they just extended it another | |
year,” said IAM member Brandon Thiel, who works on the F-15 program. | |
Thiel said he did not know how he will vote, but “I have a strong | |
inclination that it will not pass.” | |
His raises during his seven years at Boeing have been almost entirely | |
offset by rising living costs, he said. | |
“We just want to be comfortable, to not stress out on a daily | |
basis,” he said. | |
A by IAM District 751 members in Washington and Oregon ended with a | |
contract that included a 38% wage increase and a $12,000 signing | |
bonus. | |
Contract negotiations with a federal mediator ended Tuesday afternoon | |
without any progress. Boeing and the IAM resumed discussion later that | |
day, which continued into Wednesday and led to the latest proposal, he | |
said. | |
If the contract is approved, workers would start returning Monday | |
evening, and production would be back to normal in about a week, | |
Gillian told reporters on Wednesday. | |
Non-union employees have kept production going during the strike, | |
though output has slowed on some programs, he said last week. | |
On September 4, Boeing announced plans to hire . | |
Boeing’s offer assures workers another year of raises, even for | |
employees already at the top of the pay scale, Gillian said. “So, I | |
feel good about the offer.” | |
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