CONGRATULATIONS!!
BOEING / SPEEA
THE
BEST AND FINAL OFFER
Contract Accepted
2008-2012
Contract (4-year) Contract durations:
Dec. 2, 2008 to Oct. 6, 2012
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SEATTLE,
Dec. 02, 2008 --
Boeing [NYSE:BA] engineering and technical employees
represented by the Society of Professional Engineering
Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) IFPTE Local 2001 ratified
four-year collective bargaining agreements covering
nearly 21,000 employees in Washington, Oregon, California
and Utah.
SPEEA announced the result today following a vote-by-mail
process. Boeing and SPEEA leaders agreed Nov. 14 on
the terms of the market-competitive contracts (for
more information: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q4/081114e_nr.html).
"These contracts reward our employees for the valuable
contributions they make to Boeing's success," said
Doug Kight, Boeing vice president of Human Resources.
"These agreements also enable us to remain competitive
and position Boeing to continue to win new business
during these challenging economic times."
Employees
voted on two contracts: The first covers 14,000 engineers
in the SPEEA Professional Bargaining Unit. The second
contract covers 7,000 technical workers in the union's
Technical Bargaining Unit. The contracts go into effect
Dec. 2, 2008, and expire Oct. 6, 2012. More information
is available at www.boeing.com/2008negotiations. For
a detailed summary of the contracts, go to: www.boeing.com/2008negotiations/pdf/speea_agreement.pdf.
The Contract was accepted and recommended by the SPEEA
Union in November 14th, SPEEA members vote was ended,
December 1st, 2008 at 5:00 PM.
Boeing
is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest
manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military
aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and
manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems,
missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced
information and communication systems.
The Boeing Company represents one of the most diverse,
talented and innovative workforces anywhere. More
than 83,800 of our people hold college degrees--including
nearly 29,000 advanced degrees--in virtually every
business and technical field from approximately 2,800
colleges and universities worldwide. Boeing company
enterprise also leverages the talents of hundreds
of thousands more skilled people working for Boeing
suppliers worldwide. The Boeing Company is one of
the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales.
Source:
The
Boeing News
The
Boeing Company
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Boeing
and SPEEA reached tentative agreement on four-year contracts:
By
majority vote, SPEEA recommend that the SPEEA union members
to accept 4 (four) year contract offer.
Professional
and Technical Units
Compensation
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Salary
Adjustment Fund |
2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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Prof
& Tech units |
5.0%
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5.0%
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5.0%
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5.0%
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Min.
promotional increase Prof & Tech |
0.5%
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0.5%
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0.5%
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0.5%
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Guaranteed wage increase (GWI) |
2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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Professional Unit |
2.0%
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2.0%
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2.0%
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2.0%
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Technical
Unit |
2.5%
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2.5%
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2.5%
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2.5%
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Employee
Incentive Plan (EIP): Reaffirmed full participation in
EIP. |
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Weekend/shift
incentives: Shift incentives increased for second and
third shift from 75 cents to $1 per hour. Weekend incentives
increased from $1.50 to $2 per hour for either day, and
from $2 to $3 for both days. |
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Promotional: The minimum promotional increase
for engineers will be $3,500 (previously $3,000); for
Techs will be $2,500 (previously $2,000). |
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Prof
overtime pay: Overtime worked beyond 144 hours in a quarter
will be paid at straight time plus $15 per hour. Overtime
hours up to 144 hours per quarter will be paid at existing
rate of straight time plus $6.50 through 2010. |
Insurance:
Medical/Dental/Vision
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New
open enrollment period: All benefit changes will
occur effective July 1, 2009. Additionally, the plans
will transition to a calendar year enrollment on January
1, 2010. To enable this transition, a special six-month
election will occur with the July 2009 enrollment. |
New
- High Deductible Health Plan option: Also effective
January 1, 2010, a PPO+Account with a health savings account
will be introduced. |
Changes
to Existing Medical Plans Insurance:
Traditional
Medical Plan (TMP – no monthly premium contribution
required)
- Annual
Deductible:
The deductible will increase from $200 per individual
to $225 and $600 per family to $675. Prescription
drugs will no longer apply to the deductible.
- Maximum
Out-Of-Pocket:
No change in the maximum out-of-pocket amount,
but prescription drugs will no longer apply
to the maximum out-of-pocket.
- Prescription
Drugs: At
a retail pharmacy, the employee will only be
required to pay his or her portion of the prescription
cost. Minimum and maximum co-payments have been
added for drugs filled at a retail pharmacy.
See summaries for dollar amounts.
- Preventative
Care:
- Routine
pap tests, mammograms, prostate, and colonoscopies
are covered at 100%, deductible does not apply.
- In
addition to the four screenings, the plan
covers preventative care up to $500. Amounts
in excess of $500 are covered as any other
illness. Covered services are limited to childhood
and adult immunizations and vaccines as recommended
by the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force
guidelines.
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Select
Network Plan:(EPO – 12% premium contribution)
The
$1,000 outpatient therapy maximum per year and
$30,000 inpatient therapy maximum will be eliminated.
The
130-visit annual limit for home health care will
be eliminated. • The lifetime transplant and donor
procurement maximums will be eliminated.
The
$2,000 ambulance annual maximum will be eliminated.
Group
Health:
Mental
Health Benefits:
- Number
of mental health visits and dollar maximums
eliminated.
Vision:
- Increase
coverage for vision hardware (frames & contacts).
Dental
Plans:
- The
Preferred Dental Plan will cover an additional
two cleanings per benefit year if periodontal
disease is present.
- Examinations
by a specialist will be covered up to three
times in a six-month period (instead of the
current twice in each one-year period).
- The
Scheduled Dental Plan WILL NOT be eliminated.
Retiree
Medical:
- No
change in premium structure.
- The
defi nition of covered dependents will be expanded
to include eligible same-gender domestic partners
and their eligible children..
Other
Insurance:
- Basic
Life Insurance, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability:
The company will continue to pay the full cost.
- Long
term disability: The company will provide an
open enrollment period Jan. 1, 2010 (no evidence
of insurability) for all employees during 2009.
Uninsured Members Encouraged
To Apply!
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Retirement
Plan
- Defined
Benefi t Pension: Continue the BCERP pension
for ALL SPEEA members:
- Starting
Jan. 1, 2009, the retirement accrued benefi
t will increase from $70 to $81.
- Starting
Jan. 1, 2012, the retirement accrued benefi
t will increase from $81 to $83..
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Voluntary
Investment Plan
- Increase
the amount that employees may contribute from
20% to 25%.
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Vacation
- Payout
for vacation beyond the two-year accumulation
maximum – trial through December 2010 (in side
letter).
- New
hires and those who are rehired will have vacation
credit of one half of their annual accrual.
Normal vacation accrual will commence six months
after start of employment.
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Sick
leave
- Clarify
bereavement leave option for Leave with Pay
(LWP) if other time-off balances are exhausted.
- Prof
only - Clarify partial day absence for incidental
medical reasons (use ETS code for Paid Time
Off (PTO) ‘non-industrial illness’).
- Prof
only – Clarify partial day absence for reasons
other than those identifi ed in Article 6 (sick
leave) (use ETS code for PTO ‘personal business’).
- Reinserted
sick leave administrative language in the contract
which had been previously deleted by the company.
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Travel
- For
scheduled travel greater than 20 hours, optional
stopover or 10 hours between arrival and start
of shift.
- Prof
only - Employees who travel outside their normal
shift may, with management approval, make a
temporary modifi cation to their work schedule.
- Tech
only - Ensure techs will get paid for travel
time – up to the limit of the hours in their
normal shift.
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Holidays
- Regular
company holiday schedule – 12 holidays per year.
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- Recognition:
Keeps Utah in Prof contract.
- Training:
Increases level of Ed Wells Partnership funding
to 24.8 million for classes, conferences and
other training for SPEEA-represented employees.
- Job
families: Improves documentation of SPEEA
job families covered in the contract including
new job families.
- Investigations:
Establishes maximum time an employee can be
without pay while out of the workplace during
investigations.
- Union
Value: Provides a written statement by Boeing
that union business and union offi cials are
valued in the workplace.
- Safety
shoes: Improves and simplifi es process for
managers to authorize money toward the purchase
of safety shoes.
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Outsourcing
- Provides
for early involvement by affected employees
in allowing input of concerns and recommendations
when considering decisions to outsource bargaining
unit work.
- Commitment
by company to adhere to international labor
standards as expressed in Boeing company policy
in order to level the global playing field.
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Contract
Labor
- Contractors,
with rare exception, will not be placed in lead
roles.
- Provides
increased reporting on contractors - focusing
on limiting numbers and length of time.
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Layoffs/Recall
- Voluntary
Layoff with benefi ts (up to 13 weeks of severance
and medical/dental coverage).
- Wage
increases for laid-off employees upon return
to employment (automatically gain, at a minimum,
all Guaranteed Wage Increases (GWI) that occurred
during layoff).
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Performance
- Improvements
to provide more fairness in the Notice of Remedial
Action (NORA) process for performance..
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The
Boeing SPEEA (finally accepted the best benefits and the
world best offer from the world best choice, Commercial
Airplane and Integrated Defense Space of the Boeing Comapny.
Mutually
agreed upon sets the duration of the new contracts at FOUR
YEARS - experation date: Oct. 6, 2012. SPEEA now should
be able to have the relax and pleasure holidays to come....with
the world well known a new contract and best benefits that
they have which will affect as of December 2nd, 2008.
It is fortunate that The pay will be increased more than
the %20 percent during this contract period regardless the
economic crisis that we have and global crisis what we have
now.......Two
contracts are involved in the negotiations:
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The
first covers 14,000 engineers in the SPEEA Professional
Bargaining Unit.
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The
second contract covers 7,000 technical workers in the
union’s Technical Bargaining Unit.
While
the majority of workers are in the Puget Sound region, the
contracts cover employees in Oregon, Utah and California.
Both contracts expire Dec. 1, 2008. Union negotiators and
the SPEEA governing councils recommend members approve the
agreements. If approved by a mail-in ballot, the new employment
agreements will replace existing contracts that expire Dec.
1.
Boeing,
Human Resource, Vice President, Doug Kight sent out the
updated message last night when the Boeing and Speea released
details of the tentative agreement.
Reported
by Catch4all.com, Sandra Englund, November 15th, 2008.
Reference:
Boeing
update
speea.org
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