Cadence-Giddens Machinists to vote on first contract

  • Herald staff
  • Thursday, February 4, 2016 4:59pm
  • Business

EVERETT — Machinists union members at Cadence Aerospace-Giddens are voting Friday on the company’s final and best offer for a three-year contract.

Negotiations have dragged on since starting last July, two months after about 60 percent of the plant’s 220 production workers elected to unionize. They joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ District Lodge 751, which represents more than 30,000 Boeing workers in Washington and Portland.

Union leaders are recommending members approve the contract, but however they vote, “we will support them,” said Jon Holden, District 751’s president.

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