Boeing engineers and technicians represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) voted on October 1 to approve new four-year contracts, avoiding a potentially costly strike.

The contracts were approved with 68% of the professional unit and 54% of the technical unit voting in favor. The existing contracts were set to expire within days.

If the contracts had not been approved by October 6, thousands of workers, most based in the Puget Sound area, would have been free to strike.

A work stoppage would have further delayed Boeing's aircraft certification programs and likely hurt 737 Max production, including the already-delayed 777-9 certification.

Source: Leeham News