Boeing factory workers vote to end seven-week strike and accept pay deal

This contract will have a positive and generational impact on the lives of workers at Boeing and their families,

Holden and Bryant said in their statement

I'm extremely pumped over this vote,

Gardiner said

Jay Insleedemocratic governor

Washington is home to the world's most skilled aerospace workers, and they understandably took a stand for the respect and compensation they deserve,

Inslee stated, congratulating union members on their decision

Happy Election Day! Boeing workers have a contract!"

The X account Daily Union Elections posted in response

The strike will end and now it's our job to get back to work and start building the airplanes, increase the rates and bring this company back to financial success,

Holden said at a news conference

We will only move forward by listening and working together,

Ortberg said

Joe Bidenpresident

Good contracts benefit workers, businesses, and consumers - and are key to growing the American economy from the middle out and the bottom up,

Biden said

There's 6,000 airplanes or so in the backlog,

Holden said

This was a defining moment tonight,

IAM District 751 president Jon Holden said

He's new, he's got a lot to learn,

he said

I'm proud of our members,

Holden said

They’ve never given us a commitment” to a new airplane before launch

Holden said

I’m ready to get back to work,

said David Lemon, a worker in equipment calibration certification in Seattle who voted in favor of the contract

This is a victory. We can hold our heads high,

the union’s lead negotiator Jon Holden told members after the results were announced

While the past few months have been difficult for all of us, we are all part of the same team,

Ortberg said

We were threatened by a company that was crippled, dying, bleeding on the ground, and us as one of the biggest unions in the country couldn't even extract two-thirds of our demands from them. This is humiliating,

Bolaño said

This contract was different. We had massive leverage this time and our members really stood strong, our members took control, our members took ownership of this battle ahead,

IAM District 751 President Jon Holden told workers as he announced the results of the vote

This contract also creates a new foundation to build on for the future and that future begins today,

Jon Holden and Brandon Bryant, presidents of IAM districts 751 and W24 respectively, said in a joint statement on Monday

This agreement represents a new standard in the aerospace industry — one that sends a clear statement that aerospace jobs must be middle class careers in which workers can thrive,

Brian Bryant, IAM's international president, said in a statement on Monday

We are ready to help Boeing change direction and return to building the highest quality and safest airplanes in the world,

the statement added