ST. LOUIS — Union leaders said Wednesday that negotiators had reached a tentative agreement with Boeing to end a six-week strike.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 said the five-year deal includes improved general wage increases and a signing bonus.

Union members will vote on the agreement on Friday, according to the union.

Approval of the labor agreement would end a strike that has gone on for more than a month at St. Louis-area Boeing sites.

The new offer includes a $4,000 ratification bonus and a 24% general wage increase over five years.

The previous offer workers rejected included a $5,000 ratification bonus and a 20% general wage increase over four years. Union members rejected that offer on Aug. 3.

On the bonus, Dan Gillian, vice president of air dominance for Boeing, said he believed it was appropriate for the bonus to be less "given the time that has transpired."

On Wednesday, the company said average wages would grow from $75,000 to $109,000 over five years under the new proposal.

Under the rejected deal, average wages would rise from $75,000 to $102,600 over four years, according to the company.

"It remains the best deal we’ve ever offered to IAM 837 and we encourage our team to vote yes so we can get back to work building amazing products for our customers," Gillian said in a statement Wednesday.

Roughly 3,200 local Boeing workers belong to the local machinists and aerospace workers union.

The strike began Aug. 4. As it dragged on, union leadership called on Missouri elected officials to push Boeing back to the negotiating table.

After "no progress" was made in the last week of August, Boeing told the union that management had no intention of returning to the negotiating table until after Labor Day.

Then, last week, Boeing said the company would consider "minor" changes to the contract offer workers rejected a month before.

But a local union leader said workers were standing together for more than "minor adjustments."

The next day, Boeing management said it would move forward with hiring replacements for striking workers.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, spoke out last week, telling management to "suck it up."

“And I think what needs to happen at the end of the day is management needs to come to the table and do right by their workers,” Hawley told Missourinet. “I mean, listen, the CEOs of Boeing have made unbelievable sums of money while their planes have been falling out of the sky… literally.”

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