The Turtle Bay Resort and Unite Here Local 5 reached a tentative settlement on a new contract yesterday.

Members of a union negotiating committee at the 443-room Turtle Bay Resort voted unanimously to recommend that union workers accept the contract.

The proposed settlement, which will be subject to a full membership vote Friday, could end a two-year impasse between the resort and its more than 350 workers,

"We are pleased with the outcome of our joint efforts. Mahalo to our resort owners and employees," said Danna Holck, the resort’s vice president and general manager. "It’s time now to move forward and work together as the North Shore ohana we have always been."

Details of the contract will be withheld until after the vote.

Union negotiating committee members said they are happy with the agreement, which follows a Sept. 13 strike authorization vote.

"This agreement goes a long way to bring Turtle Bay workers’ pay and benefits to a first-class level," said George Cox, a 29-year employee of Turtle Bay.

The union’s goal was to restore and protect good jobs in the community so current and future residents could work on the North Shore, said longtime Turtle Bay worker Steven Dela Cruz.

"We took a step forward in this contract," Dela Cruz said.