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Both sides of the Boeing strike have announced they have reached a tentative deal, which, if ratified, will end the 52-day strike. We don't have specifics on the deal, but the term of the deal is 4 years rather than the previously discussed 3-year contract. Promisingly, the proposed agreement was unanimously endorsed by the machinist union's negotiating committee. The proposed deal will be presented to union members for a ratification vote later this week.

As of yesterday, Boeing machinists have been on strike for 30 days with no end in sight. Workers who have waited out previous strikes are predicting this strike will last longer than the previous record-breaking 69-day strike of 1995. This go around, Boeing machinists are striking for better pensions, benefits and a larger wage increase. Also at the heart of the strike is job security, which decreases every day the strike continues: Boeing has begun to hire temporary workers to fill empty positions.

After hearing about the affirmative strike vote by the Boeing machinists earlier this week, we assumed that both sides would meet up at Disney World and settle this whole labor thing somewhere between EPCOT and Frontierland. Apparently, labor negotiations aren't that simple.