SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 announced that the 17,000 members in the union’s Professional and Technical bargaining units have both ratified four-year contract offers from Boeing.
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The Bargaining Unit Councils for SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units both recommended that their members accept the company’s latest contract offer.
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The SPEEA Negotiation Team has concluded bargaining with Boeing and has received the company’s final offer.
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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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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’s Prof and Tech Negotiation Team has released its bargaining platform for the upcoming contract talks with Boeing.
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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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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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The union for 1,600 aerospace professionals in Wichita has reached a tentative agreement with Boeing on a new collective bargaining agreement.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s Wichita Technical and Professional Unit (WTPU) Contact Action Team, tasked with increasing WTPU membership through internal organizing, successfully surpassed the 50% mark this week, up from 28% before the campaign launched.
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A total of 10 SPEEA officers, staff, and retirees took part in the June 25 informational picket outside the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle.
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SPEEA recently achieved an agreement that requires the return to employment of 58 individuals who were laid off earlier this year. In addition to their jobs, they were also made whole for lost wages and benefits. And the returned employees will have the layoff removed from their employment record.
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, on May 19, signed a bill that extends unemployment insurance benefits to striking workers. With his signature, Washington became the third state (behind New York and New Jersey) to give strikers a financial lifeline.
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