An aerial view of the engines and fuselage of an unpainted Boeing 737 MAX airplane parked in storage at King County International Airport-Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, June 1, 2022.
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Staff at Boeing aircraft parts supplier Spirit Aerosystems approved a latest labor deal on Thursday, setting the stage to resume production at a Wichita, Kansas, facility after a piece stoppage last week.
Spirit Aerosystems, which supplies fuselages for Boeing’s best-selling 737 Max aircraft in addition to other parts for Boeing and other manufacturers, halted production last Thursday after employees voted against a latest proposed contract and in favor of a strike.
The corporate and the employees’ union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Staff, reached a latest tentative agreement for the 6,000 employees, the union said on Tuesday.
“This agreement addresses our members’ concerns with substantial wage increases, maintaining the CORE healthcare plan advantages that the membership insisted on, and includes no mandatory extra time,” the union said Tuesday.
Staff would return on July 5.
The production pause got here as Boeing scrambles to extend production of recent aircraft. The corporate went into the strike with a listing of some fuselages to proceed manufacturing.