After months of work and weeks of negotiations with Boeing, the SPEEA Prof and Tech Negotiation Team unanimously endorsed the offers to both bargaining units. Details on voting are still being finalized.
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SPEEA’s Negotiation Team has received offers from Boeing on proposed four-year collective bargaining agreements for some 17,000 aerospace professionals. There are two agreements, one for the Professional unit, made up of some 13,000 engineers and scientists, and one for roughly 4,000 technicians, analysts and planners in the Technical unit.
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Last week, the SPEEA Northwest Council passed a motion of support to stand in Solidarity with 300 Boeing cafeteria workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 8 in Puget Sound and Portland who are facing difficult contract talks with Eurest/Compass, the company Boeing contracts with for their cafeteria services.
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The latest edition of the award-winning Union newsletter, the SPEEA Spotlite, was released on July 1st, informing SPEEA’s 16k-plus members about the Union’s negotiations with the Boeing Company for the prof and tech members employed by the aerospace company.
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Negotiators for SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 began formal contract talks with Boeing on July 1.
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SPEEA members showed up strong for Seattle’s 52nd annual Pride Parade, which took place on Sunday, June 28th.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s Executive Board issued a letter of support to UNITE HERE Local 8, representing the Hilton workers at Embassy Suites, Seattle.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 Council Reps from three states came together for the annual SPEEA Council Convention and Leadership Conference last week in SEATAC, Washington.
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IFPTE, representing 90,000 workers across North America, including tens of thousands of working people in Washington State, is proud to endorse Congressman Adam Smith as he seeks reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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SPEEA’s Prof and Tech Negotiation Team has released its bargaining platform for the upcoming contract talks with Boeing.
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The May 2026 edition of SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s award-winning monthly member newsletter, The Spotlite, takes the opportunity to honor SPEEA’s 80th anniversary, and celebrate the many wins that the Union has delivered for members over the last eight decades.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 honored and thanked Brother BJ Moore this week as he is set to retire after 25 years of service to SPEEA members.
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The April 2026 edition of the award-winning SPEEA Spotlight magazine recently hit the mailboxes of IFPTE Local 2001/SPEEA members. See more inside.
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IFPTE issued the following statement in response to the release of the President’s Budget Request (PBR) for Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27), which was sent to Congress on Friday, April 3.
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We extend our congratulations to the thousands of IFPTE members at NASA whose quiet dedication and world-leading expertise contributed to today's launch of Artemis II.
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Longtime SPEEA activist and leader, Shaunna Winton, was profiled this week by the AFL-CIO blog recognizing Union Sisters making history across the labor movement.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s Bargaining Unit Councils of the Northwest Prof and Tech bargaining units recently elected the teams that will represent SPEEA members in negotiations with Boeing later this year.
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IFPTE is proud to endorse SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 member, David Garrett, for Washington State Representative.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s February 2026 newsletter, The Spotlight, was published this week.
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The failure of the company to honor its contractual obligation to notify us of such decisions is profoundly disappointing. Worse yet, the company has not yet answered basic questions about timing and process of the move.
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