By Dan Catchpole

(Reuters) -Striking workers at Boeing Defense voted 90% to approve a four-year contract proposal from union leadership that management has already refused to consider, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) announced Friday.

IAM leadership said Boeing can end the 46-day-long strike today by accepting the offer.

“Our members have spoken loudly – we are ready to return to work once Boeing accepts this agreement,” IAM District 837 President Tom Boelling said in a statement. “It’s up to the company to get our members back to what they do best: building world-class aircraft for our nation’s defense.”

“It’s unfortunate that union leadership led its members to vote on something that isn’t real,” Boeing Defense Vice President Dan Gillian said i

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