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2008-2012 Contract (4-year) Contract durations:
Dec. 2, 2008 to Oct. 6, 2012

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

 

Boeing and SPEEA reached tentative agreement on four-year contracts:

Speea To: SPEEA Technical Bargaining Unit Members,SPEEA Acceptance Letter
By majority vote, SPEEA recommend that the SPEEA union members to accept 4 (four) year contract offer.

Professional and Technical Units
Compensation

Salary Adjustment Fund
2009
2010
2011
2012
Prof & Tech units
5.0%
5.0%
5.0%
5.0%
Min. promotional increase Prof & Tech
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
Guaranteed wage increase (GWI)
2009
2010
2011
2012
Professional Unit
2.0%
2.0%
2.0%
2.0%
Technical Unit
2.5%
2.5%
2.5%
2.5%

Employee Incentive Plan (EIP): Reaffirmed full participation in EIP.
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.
Promotional: The minimum promotional increase for engineers will be $3,500 (previously $3,000); for Techs will be $2,500 (previously $2,000).
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

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.

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:

  • No changes

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!

Other Benefit

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..

Voluntary Investment Plan

  • Increase the amount that employees may contribute from 20% to 25%.

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.

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.

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.

Holidays

  • Regular company holiday schedule – 12 holidays per year.

Employee Relations

  • 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.

Workforce


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.

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.

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).

Performance

  • Improvements to provide more fairness in the Notice of Remedial Action (NORA) process for performance..

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:

  • 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.

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:

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speea.org

 

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Friday Morning, Nov.14 (Rv. 1): Today on Friday, November 14, 2008, Tentative agreement was reached today between the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001, and Boeing on new four-year contracts covering 21,000 engineers and technical workers. No details of the agreements will be released until after union negotiators present the agreements to the SPEEA Professional and Technical bargaining unit councils this evening.

Union negotiators are recommending members approve the agreements. If approved by union members, the agreements will replace existing contracts that expire Dec. 1.

Two contracts are involved in the negotiations. 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. 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.

Members will vote by mail on the contract offer. Voting packages should be mailed by Friday, Nov. 21. Members will have until 5 p.m., Dec. 1 to return marked ballots for counting. Ballots will include a vote on strike authorization. The contract vote and strike authorization is decided by a simple majority of 50 percent plus one. Negotiations for 700 engineers at Boeing Wichita originally scheduled to start Nov. 13 are delayed until Monday, Nov. 17. The Wichita contract expires Dec. 5.

Boeing Vice President, Doug Kight will be sending another message tonight when the Boeing and Speea release details of the tentative agreement.

Main Table negotiations started Oct. 29.

Mutually agreed upon sets the duration of the new contracts at FOUR YEARS - expiration date : Oct. 6, 2012.

Tentative agreement by SPEEA on Wednesday:

Many are want to see the contract goes smooth without any problem. Many are look forward to have the relax thanksgiving and Xmas holiday with the family. The world is watching to see the Boeing Company can continue to produce the production and make the share values to go up also the stock market to go up......

 



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