In a goodwill gesture to Boeing employees who were furloughed during the Machinists’ strike, new CEO Kelly Ortberg on Thursday afternoon sent out a message saying the company will return the pay they lost.

Boeing began furloughing employees on a rolling basis in September. This was one of the measures that the plane maker enacted to save cash during the strike by over 33,000 unionized members in California,

On Monday, by a vote of 59% for and 41% against, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) voted to accept a new four-year contract from Boeing (NYSE: BA). Under the terms of the new contract,

Striking Boeing machinists started returning to work on Wednesday after voting for a new contract with substantial wage increases. The 33,000 Seattle-area machinists voted 59 percent to accept, just two weeks after two-thirds of them voted to reject a slightly worse contract.