New Zealand Steel workers have voted in favour of a new two-year collective agreement after the first strike at the company in years.
Last month workers went on strike for 24 hours over the company's pay increase offer, the term of the new agreement, and the conditions relating to the use of contractors.
The new agreement was ratified this week with more than 92 percent of the unionised workers voting in favour.
It includes wage rises of more than 6 percent over the next two years and a compromise on the use and payment of contracted labour.
The agreement was negotiated by the National Distribution Union, the Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU), which led the negotiations, with more than 900 members at the company.
EPMU national industry organiser Joe Gallagher said the agreement charted a new way forward for the company, especially around the way contractors would be used.
The company has said it would withdraw court action challenging the contractors' clause in the collective agreement.
