Less than three weeks after engineers voted to reject Boeing contract offers and authorize a strike, the company presented an improved offer to Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA).
SPEEA bargains jointly for a professional unit of 13,000 Boeing engineers and scientists and a technical unit of 4,000 Boeing analysts, designers, technicians, and other specialists. According to a union summary, Boeing’s new offers include across-the-board wage increases of 10% effective Oct. 16 and 4% in March 2027. Those would be followed by annual wage increases averaging 6% in 2028, 2029, and 2030, with all employees getting at least 4% and some getting more at managers’ discretion under an established merit pay system. All told, the union estimates wages would increase 36.3% on average over the four-year term of the proposed agreement, up from 29.4% over four years in the rejected offer.
The company also proposes more significant limits on mandatory overtime for professional unit members. And it commits to “a new process for communicating Boeing’s future workforce needs to help SPEEA members plan their careers at the company.”
A union council was scheduled to review the offers to SPEEA’s technical and professional units on Sept. 17, after this issue went to press. After that, members would vote on the offers, casting electronic ballots from Sept. 24 to Oct. 1.
If ratified, the agreement would run until Oct. 11, 2030.
