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On Sunday, Boeing announced it had reached a tentative agreement with the union covering some 33,000 workers in the Pacific Northwest.
Boeing and the Machinists union, which represents 33,000 of its employees in Washington and Oregon, have reached a tentative deal that could avoid a strike that had been set to start this Friday.