Union leaders expect a close vote when 33,000 Boeing hourly workers weigh a sweetened contract offer that could end an almost six-week strike, the union’s chief said Tuesday.
“I think it’s going to be a tight vote,” Jon Holden, president of the Seattle-based machinist union told CNBC on the eve of Wednesday’s vote.
“There’s a lot of emotion tied here,” Holden said. “We’ve been able to negotiate the best that we could and we’re hoping our members will consider it.”…