Labor Deal Ends Vance Air Force Base Strike

With key contract issues solved, workers will return to resume flying operations at base.
June 23, 2009

ENID, OK — Union workers at Vance Air Force Base approved a new labor contract Monday, ending a two-week strike that grounded aircraft and sent Vance's flight training program to bases in Texas.

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 898 voted Monday on the proposal after an 11-hour bargaining session Saturday.

A picket line was pulled immediately, and workers headed back to the base for the midnight and for 4:30 a.m. shifts, said Jerry McCune, president of District Lodge 171, of which Local 898 is a part.

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