Boeing Averts Another Strike
Boeing engineers and technical workers represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) yesterday voted to approve a p

Boeing engineers and technical workers represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) yesterday voted to approve a pair of new four-year contracts. The deals, one approved by SPEEA’s Technical Unit and the other by the union’s separate Professional Unit by margins of 69 percent and 79 percent respectively, came as a huge relief to a company that only recently ended a two-month machinists strike that contributed to yet another delay of the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8.

“Passage of these contracts represents a first step in restoring the relationship between Boeing management and its engineering and technical workforce,” said SPEEA executive director and chief spokesperson Ray Goforth. “We have a lot of work to breathe life into the text of these agreements and we still need to finish negotiations in Wichita.”