IDAHO FALLS - Union workers at the Idaho National Laboratory won't be going on strike.

Members of the United Steelworkers Union voted with 94 percent support to accept a new contract offer worked out by a federal mediator.

That's after the union members had rejected an initial contract offer earlier this month from Battelle Energy Alliance, the company that runs the lab for the U.S. Department of Energy.

The 280 members of the steelworker's union at the eastern Idaho nuclear research facility handle jobs at the laboratory including electrical and mechanical work.

Mark Holubar, INL's Human Resources and Diversity director, said in a prepared statement, "We appreciate the good faith bargaining that led to its overwhelming acceptance."