Aerospace & Defense

Boeing Union Voting on Authorization to Strike

A flight test engineer of Boeing sits on 787 Dreamliner cockpit.
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The union for Boeing's engineers and technical workers is counting ballots Tuesday on a contract offer and whether to authorize a strike.

The union, Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, is recommending that members reject the offer because it would not provide pensions to new employees. They would have a 401k retirement plan instead. The union calls that unacceptable.


The union also wants the authority to call a strike if subsequent negotiations fail.


SPEEA went on strike for 40 days in 2000.