Tue, Jun 28, 2005
Membership Overwhelmingly Approves Take-It-Or-Leave It
Contract
Unionized machinists at three former
Boeing Commercial Division plants now owned by Onex took a second
look Saturday and voted overwhelmingly to approve a contract with
the new owner.
With an 89-percent majority, the machinists decided they could
indeed live with the take-it-or-leave-it offer from Onex-owned
Mid-Western Aircraft Systems -- virtually the same as the one they
turned down just last month.
"They voted for jobs, and they voted for a new beginning,"
Machinists union aerospace coordinator Dick Schneider told the
Wichita Eagle after Saturday's vote at the Kansas Coliseum.
Saying he was "extremely pleased"
with the outcome of the vote, Onex managing director Nigel Wright
told the Eagle, he is "cognizant that this is an opportunity to
work in really close partnership with the union to do everything we
hope to do here, which is become a world-class competitor, get new
work... and bring new jobs into the community."
Onex just completed the deal to purchase Boeing plants in
Wichita, Tulsa and McAlester, OK. After machinists turned down the
deal last month, Onex decided to go around the union and pose
workers a direct-from-the-plant deal.
"We'll swallow our pride and go on," said Tina Weatherman, one of
the 4,400 workers affected by the vote. "And hope that they'll
bring in more work like they promised us."
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