Overview
- The SPEEA negotiating team formally endorsed Boeing’s final four-year contract offer and said the proposal delivers meaningful value, better work/life balance and the membership’s priorities.
- The agreement’s details remain undisclosed while the union’s Bargaining Unit Councils meet next week to review the two separate offers and issue recommendations to members.
- Boeing said the offer, submitted on July 30, would place its engineering and technical workforce among market leaders on pay and benefits, company chief engineer Ben Nimmergurt said.
- Under contract rules no strike could begin before the current SPEEA contract expires on October 6, so any strike-authorization vote would occur only after the BUCs report to members.
- A ratified deal would ease near-term labor risk for Boeing’s production ramp, while a work stoppage by roughly 17,000 engineers and technicians could further delay the already late certification campaigns for the 737 MAX 10 and 777-9.