The workers up at Tama Manufacturing Company in Hanover, Pennsylvania have been on strike for fifteen intense weeks. Today UNITE HERE announced that they voted to ratify a three-year contract, ending the strike.

The contract, according to the union, was approved by a 3-to-1 majority of members and secures affordable health benefits as well as contract language that defines distribution of work and wage increases over the newly ratified contract.

“This was a very long, hard-fought fight, and we ended up victorious with the most critical issue, health care insurance,” said UNITE HERE leader Gail Meyer.

The health benefit and pay increases seals up what mattered the most to the Tama workers; most of whom earn an average of $18,000 a year.