Boeing, union engineers to resume talks Wednesday

SPEEA photo

SPEEA President Tom McCarty addressed a red-shirted union group at Boeing's Duwamish facility on Wednesday. Boeing detailed its latest offer Monday afternoon to negotiators representing 23,000 of the company's engineers.

St. Louis Business Journal

Boeing Co. delivered complete details of its latest offer Monday afternoon to negotiators representing 23,000 of the company's engineers.

Contract talks between the company and Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are slated to restart Wednesday, Reuters reports. The latest offer in the four-year agreement would increase raises for professional workers by 5 percent in each of the new contract's first two years, and 4 percent in each of the remaining two years. Technicians would get 4 percent annual raises. Health care and retirement benefits, among other contract provisions, would remain unchanged.

Last week, the parties had three days of talks in Seattle with federal mediators. A strike hasn't been authorized by the union, but SPEEA has been conducting strike training.

Boeing's engineering operations are expected to come under scrutiny, as the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Friday that it will review design and production of the 787 Dreamliner following a week that raised concerns about the safety of the new aircraft.

On Monday, The National Transportation Safety Board said it returned a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire a week ago back to Japan Airlines (JAL). The NTSB is examining the burned-out battery at a lab in Washington, D.C., The Seattle Times reported.

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