Labor deal keeps Boeing production in Washington
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A KEY Boeing labor union narrowly approved an eight-year contract that keeps production of the new 777X jet airliner in Washington State in exchange for cuts in benefits.
As a result, Boeing will stop seeking alternate sites for production of a more fuel-efficient version of its best-selling wide-body jet.
The Machinists Union District Lodge 751 said late on Friday that members approved the controversial contract by 51 percent. “Our members have spoken and this is the course we’ll take,” said local union president Tom Wroblewski, who represents more than 30,000 hourly workers at Boeing.
The contract was accepted even though Wroblewski and the local union leaders urged their members to reject Boeing’s offer, which they said included cuts in retirement and health care benefits, and set limits on future wage growth.
“All along we knew that our members wanted to build the 777X,” Wroblewski said. “Now, it’s up to all of us now to pull together to make this airplane program successful.”
When the union rejected the first offer, the aerospace titan began to look elsewhere in the nation to move the program.
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