More than 20 members of SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 met with about 30 Washington state lawmakers in Olympia to urge support for labor and aerospace issues.
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While more than 400 U.S. companies have stopped and removed operations in Russia, The Boeing Company has thus far only announced a “suspension” of work in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia.
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Last weekend, SPEEA-Local 2001 hosted their annual leadership conference, which included a keynote speech by investigative journalist Peter Robison.
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The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) issued the following statement on the announcement that Qatar Airways will be the launch customer for the Boeing 777X Freighter.
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The Boeing Company’s decision to consolidate 787 production in North Charleston and abandon its Dreamliner line in Everett is disappointing and frustrating to the thousands of engineers, technical workers and pilots represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001).
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 issued the following press release: The Boeing Company delivered layoff notices to its remaining seven Flight Training Airplane (FTA) pilots and will instead send the critical work of providing on-site training to airline customers to an overseas contract house. The 60-day notices of layoff eliminate all direct Boeing FTA pilots by the end of November – a critical moment in Boeing’s plan to return the 737MAX to service and start delivering the roughly 400 airplanes now parked around the West Coast.
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The union representing engineers, pilots and other technical workers at Boeing sharply criticized the aircraft manufacturer today for its decision to fire the company’s U.S.-based training pilots and replace them with contract workers from Cambridge Communications Limited, a company located on the Isle of Man, a tax haven in the middle of the Irish Sea.
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SPEEA/Local 2001 recently teamed up with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) 751 in filing for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), also known as Trade Act, with the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in additional federal support for SPEEA and IAM members in Washington state and Oregon who were laid off by Boeing.
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The Boeing Corporation is reportedly contemplating refusing to accept the taxpayer-funded bailout due to minimal requirements.
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