Boeing averts labour strife as engineers, tech workers approve 6-year pact

Chicago

BOEING Co will not face labour strife later this year after engineers and technical workers overwhelmingly approved a six-year contract extension that brings a salary boost and greater job security.

The terms take effect immediately and extend to October 2022, the company said in a statement on its website. The tentative agreement was approved by 71 per cent of union engineers and 73 per cent of technical workers, the union said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

The deal is the latest of several long-term pacts struck by Boeing and its collective bargaining units that break from short-term contracts that had left the company at risk of freq…