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SPEEA Members at Boeing Reject 'Best and Final' Offer, Authorize Strike

Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace rejected Boeing's "best and final" contract offer and authorized a strike in both bargaining units, results announced Aug. 21 show. The offer carried the union's largest wage-pool increase since 1983, by SPEEA's own account, and the unanimous endorsement of its negotiation team. Boeing says it is now preparing for a possible strike.

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The interior of the Boeing Everett Factory: two unpainted green-primer 777X widebody fuselages with tails and wings attached, parked nose-forward on the assembly floor under a lit steel roof truss with overhead cranes, with tooling and small figures of workers in high-visibility vests alongside.
Boeing 777X fuselages on the assembly floor at the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington (file photo). SPEEA represents engineers, scientists, and technical workers at Boeing primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Photo: SounderBruce / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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