(Source: Tulsa World)
A nearly six-week strike at Bell Helicopter ended Wednesday after the union representing about 2,500 manufacturing workers approved a four-year contract.
United Auto Workers Local 218 members in the Dallas-Fort Worth area voted on a contract that Bell had presented during negotiations Tuesday. The vote was 1,355 to 646, union officials said.
Workers will report back to work Monday.
The new contract includes more health care plan options and adds pay raises to the fourth year.
Workers at the plants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area produce parts, components and assemblies for all Bell aircraft, including the V-22 Osprey and H-1 military helicopters as well as the company's civilian models. The military aircraft are assembled in Amarillo and the civilian aircraft in Mirabel, Canada.
Bell Helicopter is a unit of Providence, R.I.-based Textron Inc.
Originally published by Staff and Wire Reports.
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