IAM Votes On Boeing Contract

After reaching an initial agreement with Boeing earlier this week, the IAM membership goes to the polls in order to either accept or reject the amended contract being tabled that could see the strike end after almost two months, having walked out when negotiations in September collapsed.

The new contract on offer can be found by clicking here.

Voting commences 8am local time and closes at 6pm. As per the IAM website:

“The vote only needs 50% plus one to either accept the offer or reject the offer. If the offer is ratified, members can return to work as early as Monday, November 3rd (Sunday night for 3rd shift members).”

Image courtesy of redcoulter

Over the last few days, comments left on this site and others show a varying degree of both outright acceptance and rejection of the improved deal on offer.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President & CEO, Scott Carson noted that “the new contract provides Boeing with the flexibility we need to manage our business while addressing the union’s concerns about job security, pay and benefits.“

There is wide-ranging agreement that ratifying the deal will bring both employer and employees together to work on the burgeoning $340bn backlog and better compete with rival Airbus.

The IAM has recommended that that members accept the new deal.

This page will be updated after the ballots have been cast, pending the outcome of whether to accept or turn down the new contract on offer.

(Prior articles on the Boeing/IAM/SPEEA strike/discussions can be found by clicking these links here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.)

11 comments November 1st, 2008