Inside the Long Beach C-17 manufacturing facility.
8:30am | Boeing and its Long Beach-based C-17 assembly line workers reached a tentative contract agreement setting up a vote on the proposed deal as early as Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. The United Auto Workers Local 178 represents over 1,700 assembly line workers at the C-17 facility. Workers have been on strike since early May and negotiations reached their peak this week leading to the agreement.
According to the Los Angeles Times: “Under the new proposed five-year contract, workers would not get a raise this year, but would get a $4,000 lump sum payout. They would get a 3% raise each year over the remaining life of the contract. In addition, Boeing would increase its pension contribution by $2 to $81 a month for every year of service. Also, employees would pay 13% of their medical costs in an HMO plan, down from 15% under the previous contract offer.”
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