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SEATTLE — Boeing’s Machinists union said it will vote on a tentative four-year labor pact Saturday, a process that could end an eight-week strike against the airplane maker.
The strike, in its 53rd day, has shut Boeing’s commercial-jet factories, cut into profits and delayed airplane deliveries.
Boeing spokesman Tim Healy on Tuesday said company and union officials would meet soon to set a schedule for workers to return to their jobs if the contract is ratified. Workers were given two weeks to report after the end of the last strike in 2005, but Healy said the company feels “that’s probably too long.” As for the timing of the ratification vote, “that’s their process,” he said. “We want to get folks back to work as soon as we can.”
