Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Boeing technical workers have approved a new four-year contract that maintains annual 5-percent salary increase pools and guaranteed minimum wage increases each year. Of the 4,898 workers who submitted ballots, 4,244 voted to accept the same deal a <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2013-02-20/boeing-techs-vote-strike-engineers-accept-offer">narrow majority rejected on February 19</a>. Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) negotiators told members a second rejection would likely result in a strike due to Boeing’s refusal to move from its position on all outstanding matters of disagreement, most notably the company’s insistence that it abandon its defined pension plan in favor of a 401(k) for all new hires.


The new contract extends the remaining terms of the previous contract, including no increases to employee contributions for medical coverage and an increase to the retirement benefit.


SPEEA and Boeing started negotiations in April last year. On February 19 its professional workers narrowly accepted Boeing’s offer. Although SPEEA negotiated their contracts simultaneously, technicians and engineers work under separate contracts. Technical workers had gone without a contract since November 25.


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