Boeing Engineers Prepare To Strike
SPEEA members last week train as so-called picket captains, responsible for scheduling picket line shifts at Boeing factories around Washington State’s Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon. (Photo: SPEEA)
SPEEA members last week train as so-called picket captains, responsible for scheduling picket line shifts at Boeing factories around Washington State’s Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon. (Photo: SPEEA)

Leaders from the Society of Professional Engineers in Aerospace (SPEEA) are meeting with engineers and technicians working at various “choke points” within Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the Seattle area and Portland, Oregon, in preparation for a strike as early as February. SPEEA director Ray Goforth told AIN last week that if the company’s approach to contract negotiations doesn’t change dramatically soon after the sides meet again on January 9, the union will send strike ballots to its some 23,000 members employed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, 96 percent of whom turned down Boeing’s first offer in October.