Boeing engineers, technical workers reject contract offer
Boeing's largest white-collar union, SPEEA, has rejected the company's latest four-year contract offer. Members have authorized their negotiating team to call for a strike, citing concerns over inflation-capped wage increases.
Why it matters
A potential strike by engineers and technical workers could further disrupt Boeing's already delayed aircraft production and certification timelines.
Boeing engineers and technical workers rejected the U.S. planemaker's four-year contract offer, union officials said on Friday.
The 17,000 members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace also overwhelmingly voted to give the negotiating team the power to declare a strike when the contract expires in October, the union said.
SPEEA is Boeing's largest white-collar union.
Boeing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A union spokesperson said its negotiation team plans to survey members to see what it will take to approve a four-year contract with Boeing. The company offered better terms than expected, several union members said.
A work stoppage by SPEEA members would further delay Boeing's certification campaigns for its 737 Max 10 and 777-9 planes, both of which are several years behind schedule.
While the negotiating team endorsed the terms, neither of SPEEA's bargaining unit councils backed the offer.
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