Wichita Integrated Defense Systems (SPEEA) The Best Offer on Dec. 20th vote Fo r " YES"

Wichita Engineers: Society of Professional Engineering and
Technical Employees in Aerospace(SPEEA)
Wichita Integrated Defense Systems
The Best Offer on Dec. 20th vote For
" YES"

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WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2005--The union representing engineers at The Boeing Company's Wichita Integrated Defense Systems is sending a new contract offer to members for a ratification vote. Voting will take place Tuesday, Dec. 20, at an all-member meeting. Details of the meeting time and place will be sent to members when they are available.

SPEEA represents 4,660 employees in Wichita at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. Overall, the professional union represents 22,200 engineers, technical and professional employees in Washington, Kansas, Oregon, Utah and California. SPEEA, a Local of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), also represents workers at BAE Systems, Inc., in Irving, Texas, and Triumph Composite Systems, Inc., in Spokane, Wash.

The latest offer is for a three-year contract covering the 788 engineers in the Wichita Engineering Unit. If approved by members on Tuesday (Dec. 20), represented employees will receive a 4.5 percent lump sum bonus before the end of the year. In addition, the contract creates pools for wage increases of 5 percent in year one, 4 percent in year two and 4 percent in the final year of the contract. Individual employees are guaranteed a 1 percent increase in each year and a total of 4.5 percent over the three years of the contract.

By returning to the bargaining table, the union was able to switch the Wichita contract to three years, continuing its tie to contracts for Boeing engineers in SPEEA's Puget Sound bargaining units. In addition, the union secured letters of understanding recognizing the need to find a replacement for medical coverage for employees who retire early. While the benefit remains for qualifying existing employees, it will not be available to employees hired after Dec. 31, 2006. Another side letter establishes a joint committee to explore determination of appropriate market pay.

The Boeing Company is still waiting for KC767 ( Massive Urgency Tankers) and C17 (222) to be approved.

It is our Hope the patagon and the congress approve enough budget to keep our country safe and we sure do need massive numbers of tankers for KC 767 and 222, C-17 to keep away terroist, safe environmental issue, homeland security and keeping peace around the world and keep strong economic to run for Defense Space for the Boeing Company.

Puget sound voted Yes last December 1st, 2005 and "Positive Result" came as the following :

89.5 percent approved from the engineers (Yes).
84 percent from the technical workers (Yes).

The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, or SPEEA, and strongly recommended that its members accept the contract.

It is the first time, place engineers and technical employees into Boeing's employee incentive plan, or EIP, which offers payments based on how well the company does. Represented employees could receive their first annual EIP check in February.

It is positive to see some of the representatives and senators are helping on this issue to be resolve and it isour Hope the patagon and the congress approve enough budget to keep our country safe and we sure do need massive numbers of tankers for KC 767 and 222 C-17 to keep away terroist, safe environmental issue, homeland security and keeping peace around the world and keep strong economic to run for Defense Space for the Boeing Company.

It is everyone's hope that Wichita Engineers: Society of Professional Engineering and Technical Employees in Aerospace(SPEEA) Wichita Integrated Defense Systems approve The Best Offer on Dec. 20th vote For " YES"

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