Wednesday, Nov.5

SPEEA negotiation teams primarily worked internally:

Developing and refining counter proposals - previously presented by Boeing.

The SPEEA adjusted presentation on Main Table session:

Respectful dialog but no new agreements.

SPEEA's counter proposal on Article 6

Continue to seek improvements

Sick leave,

Adding bereavement

Improving the maximum sick leave payout at retirement.

A union counter proposal presentationtation on article 9

Deal with the problems of contractors (non-Boeing labor).

Clarifying a counter proposal on Letter of Understanding (LOU) 10: related outsourcing.

Letter of Understanding (LOU) 12:

Voluntary layoff with benefits during times of employee surplus (also discussed at Main Table).

SPEEA continues to press for a layoff benefit:

Provides one week of pay for each year of service

Boeing provides hourly workers in Philadelphia and Wichita who take a voluntary layoff during times of employee surplus.

The company maintains it cannot provide one week for each year for salaried, SPEEA-represented employees, as part of this pilot program.

Boeing’s acceptance of this proposal would close out this outstanding item from the 2005 negotiations.

A counter from Boeing on SPEEA’s compensation proposal is now expected Thursday. A discussion regarding employee benefits, including medical plans and retirement issues, is also tentatively scheduled for Thursday.

The bargaining units include 20,300 Boeing employees in Washington, Oregon, Utah and California.

Main table negotiations for 700 engineers in Kansas remain

on schedule to start Nov. 13.

SPEEA is asking for improving the maximum sick leave payout at retirement although the health care cost expense is rising every year especially for the economic crisis that we have.

Most of the company have the problem with the health care cost. It is becoming the major issues every company rising health care cost. This issue becoming the most difficult situation due to the marketing driven insurance cost. Even the medicare cost is rising as well. Regardless the high cost expenses covering by the Boeing Company, The Boeing health covers the most benefit to the Boeing Employees like Mayoclinic program. Every Boeing Employees take advantage of this regardless the where you working even engineers. This is the tools that they can prevent and encouraging the healthy life as giving the self assessments. Recently all Boeing managers encouraged all the employees to take self assesments and received the gift card when they are finishing the self assessment.

This health tool is more than the insurance cover and many of the Boeing Engineers and employees take advantage on this. We can take advantages using the Mayo Clinic program and improve our health: It is nice that we can even figure out own Calculators BMI, calculator Calorie calculator Heart disease risk calculator LDL cholesterol calculator, Pregnancy due date calculator, and Target heart rate calculator to prevent your own health.

It is nice to find out how health insurance works and some helpful tips on ways that you can help control the cost of health care.

The Boeing Company is committed to absorbing most of the cost increases for health care although the employees pay some share of this cost, but the cost is far less than other companies pay at the most large U.S. Companies.

The health care spending is continues by several measures, health care spending continues to rise at the fastest rate in our history. In 2007, total national health expenditures were expected to rise 6.9 percent -- two times the rate of inflation.1 Total spending was $2.3 TRILLION in 2007, or $7600 per person1. Total health care spending represented 16 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Here are some facts that The Impact of Rising Health Care Costs:

	National surveys show that the primary reason people are uninsured is the high cost of health insurance coverage
	Economists have found that rising health care costs correlate to drops in health insurance coverage.
	Nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of the uninsured reported changing their way of life significantly in order to pay medical bills.
	In a Wall Street Journal-NBC Survey almost 50 percent of the American public say the cost of health care is their number one economic concern.
	One in four Americans say their family has had a problem paying for medical care during the past year, up 7 percentage points over the past nine years. Nearly 30 percent say someone in their family has delayed medical care in the past year, a new high based on recent polling. Most say the medical condition was at least somewhat serious.
	A new survey shows that more than 25 percent said that housing problems resulted from medical debt, including the inability to make rent or mortgage payments and the development of bad credit ratings..
	According to a recent report, the United States has $480 billion in excess spending each year in comparison to Western European nations that have universal health insurance coverage. The costs are mainly associated with excess administrative costs and poorer quality of care.

Looks like there are no single solution to health care’s high price tag. What we do know is if the rate of escalation in health care spending and health insurance premiums continues at current trends. The national survey shows that the cost of inaction will severely affect employer’s bottom lines and consumer’s pocketbooks. The worst thing is KC-767 Tanker deal, $35.00 Billions distructed Boeing's plan which have been excited producing the suppliers, partners, engineers, Mfg technicians plan to have so much to add on to the Boeing's benefit packages. Air Force KC-X budget plan have been push to a new President-Elect Obama Barack's 2010 budget which gave the less share value plan for the Boeing Company. Until the sustaining procurments making the productions, the share value is not going to be added to all stake holders and to the employees... around the world.

The release quoted Gates, saying that “It is my judgment that in the time remaining to us, we can no longer complete a competition that would be viewed as fair and objective in this highly charged environment. The resulting ‘cooling off’ period will allow the next Administration to review objectively the military requirements and craft a new acquisition strategy for the KC-X.”

The worst case is today's U.S. Stocks Tumble in Market's Worst Two-Day Slump Since 1987, after jobless claims jumped and the shrinking economy crushed earnings at companies from Blackstone Group Inc. to News Corp include the Boeing Company. The Boeing stock slumped more than $40. share from $90 since November last year:

Boeing Stock Nov. 2007 to Nov. 2008

S&P 500 energy companies lost 6.1 percent as a group, as oil declined for the third time this week. Crude for December delivery retreated 6.9 percent to $60.77 a barrel, the lowest settlement since March 2007.

There is going to have Global Crisis meeting in Washington mid November this year with the global leaders around the world. Many speeas are wanting to see the production going before the worst case happen and make the share value grow and support the Global Crisis.

Provided by Sandra Englund, November 5th, 2008

Referernce:

Mayo Clinic

Health Care Costs

FACTS ON HEALTH CARE COSTS

U.S. Stocks Tumble in Market's Worst Two-Day Slump Since 1987

SPEEA update

FLASH: NO Tanker RFP Til Next Admin

SPEEA.org

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The Boeing has the most advanced edcuation program and management development program via LTD (1) Besides the most compatible benfits the Boeing have, the Boeing also offers unique benefit like - if you receive a layoff notice and you are eligible to retire. The Boeing Company considers that it is very important to understand how the alternative employees to choose would affect the employees' benefits. if you resign than if you retire:

1. How the classification of your departure will affect your benefits.
2. Eligibility criteria for Boeing pension benefits.
3. Sources for more information.

More details you can "Summary of Your Benefits When You Leave The Boeing Company" 3)

SPEEA is concern about the out sourcing, but we need to understand how the Boeing 787 is making. The Boeing 787 assamblies put together for the most fuel efficiency airplane in Everett Mfg Boeing: It allows the Boeing to create a production flow around the world that is very efficient which will make more compatible for the world market driven and to compete, you can see the following image how the 787 Everett assemblies putting together with the harmonized global level and that is how the strong market driven with the more emphasis of Green Environment:

A330 to A380 cases are worse case for the Boeing which is driven by unfair EU subsidies for the Boeing Company and for the world global market which has destructed global hamonized balance and world market crashed and see what is going on around the world. WTO had panel regarding the Airbus unfair EU subsidies in 2007 (6) (7), yet It is still to be resolved....WTO is working very hard on this to resolve this against UNFAIR EU SUBSIDIES. The Boeing has been suffered over 37 years, yet to be resolved by the WTO for this case, the panel to be scheduled. The world market has been crashed with the unknown driven subisides...and the global bank is also in a critical situation to be adjusted. The world leaders to see in Washington soon in November to discuss about the global market to support. Regardless all of these, the Boeing is still the world best known company FOR WORK AND BENEFITS ARE COMPATIBLE LIKE SO MANY UNEMPLOYEES ARE LOOKING FOR THE BOEING JOBS.

Reported by Sandra Englund, Catch4all.com, November 3rd, 2008

Resources:

1) Boeing Learning Center: National Archives

2) Boeing Leardership Center

3) Summary of Your Benefits When You Leave The Boeing Company

Boeing Benefits website:

Boeing Benefit website: internal website

4) Boeing 787: Parts from around world will be swiftly integrated

5) Boeing Closer to Assembling First 787 Dreamliner

6) 2007: Notice of second public meeting in the WTO Dispute

7) The global market continues distorting by The Airbus - EU Subsidies for Large Commercial Aircraft

The Boeing Environmental Report 2008

Resouce: speea.org

Tuesday, Nov. 5

The fifth day of Main Table negotiations:

Non-economic issues, outsourcing.

Made some progress and clarification

SPEEA is waiitng for Boeing's response.

Company negotiators countered SPEEA proposals:

Non-Boeing labor and contractors, Article 9;

Employment stabilization : Letter of Understanding (LOU) 10.

Boeing is in working to process of developing

“We appreciate the effort,” said SPEEA Professional Team Chair Dave Patzwald. “Our members want the ability to provide their engineering and technical expertise so that the resulting decisions regarding outsourcing are sound.”

The two sides continue to work issues regarding:

A pilot program to allow employees to take voluntary layoff
in times of employee surplus.

While the majority of the plan is acceptable, the union
continues to press for the best plan for members.

Voluntary layoff is an issue remaining from the 2005 negotiations.

A discussion regarding employee benefits, including:

Medical plans and retirement issues, remains pending.

Negotiations to secure new contracts for SPEEA Professional and Technical units resume Wednesday morning.

The bargaining units include 20,300 Boeing employees in Washington, Oregon, Utah and California.

Main table negotiations for 700 engineers in Kansas remain
on schedule to start Nov. 13.

Provided by Sandra Englund, November 4th, 2008

Referernce: speea.org

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The Boeing has the most advanced edcuation program and management development program via LTD (1) Besides the most compatible benfits the Boeing have, the Boeing also offers unique benefit like - if you receive a layoff notice and you are eligible to retire. The Boeing Company considers that it is very important to understand how the alternative employees to choose would affect the employees' benefits. if you resign than if you retire:

1. How the classification of your departure will affect your benefits.
2. Eligibility criteria for Boeing pension benefits.
3. Sources for more information.

More details you can "Summary of Your Benefits When You Leave The Boeing Company" 3)

SPEEA is concern about the out sourcing, but we need to understand how the Boeing 787 is making. The Boeing 787 assamblies put together for the most fuel efficiency airplane in Everett Mfg Boeing: It allows the Boeing to create a production flow around the world that is very efficient which will make more compatible for the world market driven and to compete, you can see the following image how the 787 Everett assemblies putting together with the harmonized global level and that is how the strong market driven with the more emphasis of Green Environment:

A330 to A380 cases are worse case for the Boeing which is driven by unfair EU subsidies for the Boeing Company and for the world global market which has destructed global hamonized balance and world market crashed and see what is going on around the world. WTO had panel regarding the Airbus unfair EU subsidies in 2007 (6) (7), yet It is still to be resolved....WTO is working very hard on this to resolve this against UNFAIR EU SUBSIDIES. The Boeing has been suffered over 37 years, yet to be resolved by the WTO for this case, the panel to be scheduled. The world market has been crashed with the unknown driven subisides...and the global bank is also in a critical situation to be adjusted. The world leaders to see in Washington soon in November to discuss about the global market to support. Regardless all of these, the Boeing is still the world best known company FOR WORK AND BENEFITS ARE COMPATIBLE LIKE SO MANY UNEMPLOYEES ARE LOOKING FOR THE BOEING JOBS.

Reported by Sandra Englund, Catch4all.com, November 3rd, 2008

Resources:

1) Boeing Learning Center: National Archives

2) Boeing Leardership Center

3) Summary of Your Benefits When You Leave The Boeing Company

Boeing Benefits website:

Boeing Benefit website: internal website

4) Boeing 787: Parts from around world will be swiftly integrated

5) Boeing Closer to Assembling First 787 Dreamliner

6) 2007: Notice of second public meeting in the WTO Dispute

7) The global market continues distorting by The Airbus - EU Subsidies for Large Commercial Aircraft

The Boeing Environmental Report 2008

Resouce: speea.org

Monday, Nov. 3

Compensation dominates discussion at Main Table negotiations on Day 4

SPEEA and Boeing negotiation teams on counter proposals, the afternoon session produced a pointed exchange regarding SPEEA’s proposal on Article 11 and compensation.

SPEEA negotiators gave a complete presentation on compensation:

Examples to illustrate the need for each proposed change.

Compensation proposals originally outlined to Boeing in September,

SPEEA seeks market-leading wages,

Increase to the Professional overtime rate,

Compensation for employees required to be on-call

A meaningful cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA).

Morning session Proposals to Boeing:

Vacation, sick leave, holidays and bereavement leave.

The proposals involved contract Articles 5, 6 and 7 were unchanged from the documents the company rejected on Thursday.

SPEEA Executive Director and Chief Spokesperson Ray Goforth said: “Our expectation is that these will be taken seriously this time.” Reviewing some of the company data outside of Main Table, SPEEA staff uncovered that Boeing’s original presentation on the issues miscalculated employee use of non-industrial time off.

After hearing the union’s concerns, Boeing agreed to the majority of union proposals on sick leave language in Article 6.

SPEEA's One major Concern: If removing Utah engineers from the Professional bargaining unit.

Main Table - Boeing offer:

To create a pilot program to allow some employees an option to apply for a voluntary layoff during employment surpluses.

The offer had several differences from the original SPEEA proposal, but represented great progress.

SPEEA team is reviewing the Boeing material and developing a counter proposal.

Boeing discussion on Monday: Employee benefits, including medical plans and retirement issues

The SPEEA teams continue to refine proposal.

Union presentation on compensation, including our proposals for general wage increases

A meaningful cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA).

Outsourcing and the use of contractors continues to be discussed:

Reacting to SPEEA concerns on outsourcing and the treatment of workers in other countries,

Boeing said it is refining its offers on Article 9, dealing with contractors, and LOU 10, regarding outsourcing.

Negotiations to secure new contracts for SPEEA Professional and Technical units resumed at 9 a.m., Monday. The bargaining units include 20,300 Boeing employees in Washington, Oregon, Utah and California.

Main table negotiations for 700 engineers in Kansas remain on schedule to start Nov. 13.

The Boeing has the most advanced edcuation program and management development program via LTD (1) Besides the most compatible benfits the Boeing have, the Boeing also offers unique benefit like - if you receive a layoff notice and you are eligible to retire. The Boeing Company considers that it is very important to understand how the alternative employees to choose would affect the employees' benefits. if you resign than if you retire:

1. How the classification of your departure will affect your benefits.
2. Eligibility criteria for Boeing pension benefits.
3. Sources for more information.

More details you can "Summary of Your Benefits When You Leave The Boeing Company" 3)

SPEEA is concern about the out sourcing, but we need to understand how the Boeing 787 is making. The Boeing 787 assamblies put together for the most fuel efficiency airplane in Everett Mfg Boeing: It allows the Boeing to create a production flow around the world that is very efficient which will make more compatible for the world market driven and to compete, you can see the following image how the 787 Everett assemblies putting together with the harmonized global level and that is how the strong market driven with the more emphasis of Green Environment:

A330 to A380 cases are worse case for the Boeing which is driven by unfair EU subsidies for the Boeing Company and for the world global market which has destructed global hamonized balance and world market crashed and see what is going on around the world. WTO had panel regarding the Airbus unfair EU subsidies in 2007 (6) (7), yet It is still to be resolved....WTO is working very hard on this to resolve this against UNFAIR EU SUBSIDIES. The Boeing has been suffered over 37 years, yet to be resolved by the WTO for this case, the panel to be scheduled. The world market has been crashed with the unknown driven subisides...and the global bank is also in a critical situation to be adjusted. The world leaders to see in Washington soon in November to discuss about the global market to support. Regardless all of these, the Boeing is still the world best known company FOR WORK AND BENEFITS ARE COMPATIBLE LIKE SO MANY UNEMPLOYEES ARE LOOKING FOR THE BOEING JOBS.

Reported by Sandra Englund, Catch4all.com, November 3rd, 2008

Resources:

1) Boeing Learning Center: National Archives

2) Boeing Leardership Center

3) Summary of Your Benefits When You Leave The Boeing Company

Boeing Benefits website:

Boeing Benefit website: internal website

4) Boeing 787: Parts from around world will be swiftly integrated

5) Boeing Closer to Assembling First 787 Dreamliner

6) 2007: Notice of second public meeting in the WTO Dispute

7) The global market continues distorting by The Airbus - EU Subsidies for Large Commercial Aircraft

The Boeing Environmental Report 2008

Resouce: speea.org

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The community leaders, employees' families, and the tax payers want end the strike. The Boeing is the main industry to maintaining the global economic. Your profit share has to grow. Many are already complaining that the IAM strike is hurting their families and communities. How can the Boeing trust and rely on IAM if the IAM continue to strike every time new contract is there regardless the Boeing Company offered the best and the most compatible labor contract.

The Boeing may have to consider this situation very seriously for this case. The Boeing Company should make the urgency call for out-sourcing in order to meet the customers' schedule if the strike is continue.

Although IAM continues not to cooperate with the economic situation and with the circumstances: IAM is continue to wait: see the following Strike Update from IAM, dated October 25, 2008 and October 26, 2008. Although, I am is now tentetively agreed on October 27, 2008.

Strike update - October 25, 2008 Union negotiators continued meeting with the federal mediators and Company negotiators throughout Saturday and into the evening with additional talks scheduled for Sunday. As previously reported, no details of the talks will be available until this round of talks have concluded.

Strike Update - October 26, 2008 Contract talks continued late into the evening Sunday and will resume first thing Monday morning. No details will be released until this latest round of contract talks have concluded.

We all are expected to see STOP STRIKE and support the ECONOMIC CRISIS and GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS !!!!!!!

THAT MEANS, PLEASE GO BACK TO WORK AND GET PAID FULL PAY BY THE COMPANY: The Boeing Company that you can increase your production: share value and benefits.

Here is one of the good examples that we want to share : see on 787 operations: The circumstance need significant changes needed due to the strike and if it continues....

The companies and other labors needs strong back up to support the customers to meet the customer schedule......

Click to see more detail Photo Credit: FlightBlogger - June 2008. Dreamliner Five, Six, Seven and Eight at Vought Aircraft Industries in North Charleston, SC.

"In response to the Boeing IAM strike, we have modified our operations and reached an agreement with Boeing to minimize impacts on our operating results, working capital and liquidity," said Steve Davis, vice president and general manager, Vought Commercial Aerostructures Division. "In addition, we have put in place our contingency plan in response to the Nashville strike."

Vought Aircraft Industries is responsible for the fabrication of aft fuselage Sections 47 and 48 of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston, SC. Vought Aircraft Industries is responsible for the fabrication of aft fuselage Sections 47 and 48 of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston, SC. In addition, over the next 30 days, Vought will be reviewing a number of additional contingencies including possible temporary shut down of the entire North Charleston facility

"This is a challenging time for all of us who support the Dreamliner program," said Joy Romero, vice president and general manager, 787 Program. "Since the beginning of the Boeing strike, we've been looking at ways to mitigate potential employee job loss in North Charleston, including the initial reduction of outside contract labor. We plan to work with our employees to identify temporary redeployment opportunities at other Vought locations, where possible." Click to see more detail

The strike will cost Boeing about $100 million in revenue per day and knock about 1 cent per day off earnings per share, Longer strike will employees' share value will go down and reducing own values and even reducing the other benefits as well due to the production issues, according to Wall Street analysts. The walk-out by the IAM is the fourth at Boeing in 20 years. The union struck for 48 days in 1989, 69 days in 1995 and 28 days in 2005. In 2002, a contract was adopted by default, as it was rejected by workers but fewer than two-thirds approved a strike. As we all know about this, Regardless the economic crisis and minus profit for 2008 Boeing's earning, the Boeing offered the BEST AND FINAL Boeing's "best and final" contract offer this time around was delivered to union members 46 days ago, proposing an 11 percent wage increase over the three-year life of the contract, a one-time lump sum and ratification bonus.

You will be able to see the detailed benefits via the company online calculator suggests that health care accounts for about 12 percent of that total, and pensions 6 percent.

IAM, October 22nd, 2008, stated that "Despite the turmoil and financial conditions of Wall Street, Boeing remains highly profitable with a record $349 billion backlog (up 7%). "

Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) agreed late Monday to return to the bargaining table Oct. 23 under the auspices of federal mediators to resolve a strike that will be in its 47th day by then.

BACK LOG DOES NOT CALCULATES THE PROFIT UNTIL YOU HAVE THE PRODUCTION AND DELIVER THE AIRPLANES.

Many community leaders believe that the IAM is not being fair to the Boeing Company. KC-X tanker contract has been canceled until the next year's budget. The economic is very bad, unemployment rates are growing however, the Boeing Company has offered the most and best labor contract. The jobless people want to have job at Boeing.

We the communities and tax payers want the strike to be ended as soon as possible and support the economic to recover.

THE Boeing stock market down more than 35 per share since April, 2008 Yet, The Boeing BEST AND FINAL OFFER WAS OFFERED 11 PERCENT INCREASED SINCE LAST CONTRACT

The Boeing stock market had big drops and big down more than 30 shares from 78 since. The economic is bad and analysts are not optimistic yet: credit and bank loan crises include global inflation, we all should consider families, communities and country and global market to recover.

Look around the situation what's look like the economy. IAM also understand the situation that the Boeing would had more manufacturing job opening for more than 50 state: “Awarding this contract to Boeing would preserve a key a manufacturing sector and provide real economic stimulus for Boeing workers, vendors and communities in at least 30 U.S. states,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger."

This is not the time to asking for impossible stuff to asking. It is time to support the families, communities, country and suppliers and partners, and the Boeing customers who are loyal to the Boeing Company regardless the economic down turn. Be thankful you have a job at Boeing, the best company in the World.

The 2008 Pay & Benefits Profile update is available via
online Total Access.

Rev7 October 30th, 2008, Rev6 October 29th, 2008 Rev5 October 26, 2008,Rev 4, October 25, 2008, Rev 3, October 24th, 2008. Rev 2, October 22nd, Rev 1. October 9th, 2008

ON BEHALF OF COMMUNITIES AND ALL ....

Sandra Englund, Community Leader, Community Advocator

Source:

SPEEA Website

IAM website

Glenn Back- What's Coming

wikipedia

EDGAR online

Boeing News

Boeing Negotiation

Yahoo.com

Wall Street News

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