Non-union employees kept production going during the strike, while Boeing announced plans to hire replacement workers.

Boeing Defense BA-N and the machinists union have reached a tentative deal to end a five-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, union officials announced on Wednesday.

A vote on Boeing’s five-year contract offer is scheduled for Friday, according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

IAM District 837’s roughly 3,200 members, who assemble Boeing fighter jets, went on strike on Aug. 4 after voting 67 per cent to reject the company’s last contract proposal.

“We’ve found a path forward on a five-year contract offer that grows wages by 45 per cent on average,” Boeing Defense Vice President Dan Gillian said in a statement. “It remains the b

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