<p>Machinists Union national aerospace coordinator Mark Blondin, left, and local president Tom Wroblewski announce that the union voted in favor of a new contract Wednesday in Seattle. Unionized Boeing Machinists voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a four-year contract extension in a deal that grants the company a long stretch of elusive labor peace and likely ends a federal complaint that had become a hot topic for Republican presidential candidates.</p>

December 11, 2011