Boeing Engineers Set Date for Strike Vote
SPEEA members walk a picket line outside Boeing facilities in Kent, Washington, on January 16. (Photo: SPEEA)
SPEEA members walk a picket line outside Boeing facilities in Kent, Washington, on January 16. (Photo: SPEEA)

The Boeing bargaining unit of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) has set a date of February 4 for sending strike ballots to its members, union director Ray Goforth told AIN last Wednesday. Members of the Bargaining Unit Council (BUC), consisting of all the company’s “relevant” shop stewards, reached the decision on Tuesday night, during a meeting in which the council agreed to support the negotiating team’s rejection of the company’s “best and final offer.”