Boeing's Agreement With SPEEA Provides Market-Competitive Pay and Benefits
SEATTLE, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The tentative agreement
reached today between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the Society of Professional
Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) offers market-competitive wages and
improved benefits over the four-year duration of the proposed contracts.
SPEEA is recommending that nearly 21,000 employees in Washington, Oregon,
California and Utah vote to ratify the agreement.
"Our goal was to negotiate contracts that reward our employees for their
hard work and the success they helped create," said Doug Kight, Boeing vice
president of Human Resources. "This agreement provides market-competitive pay
and benefits that enable us to attract and retain the best talent, remain on
the leading edge of technology and continue to win business in uncertain
times."
The proposed contracts reward engineering and technical employees for
their role in the company's success with
-- Five percent annual salary adjustment funds in each year of the
contract.
-- Continued participation in the Employee Incentive Plan (EIP), which
paid individual employees 41 days of extra pay over the past three years.
-- Health care benefit improvements, including enhanced wellness and
preventive care coverage at slight cost increases.
In addition, Boeing addressed SPEEA concerns about the use of non-Boeing
labor and subcontracting, while providing the company flexibility to make
business decisions.
"We recognize that Boeing's direct technical and engineering team is the
foundation of our competitiveness, and we've agreed that it is in the best
interest of the company, the union and employees to understand the nature of
Boeing's business strategies and plans regarding the use of non-Boeing labor
and subcontracting," said Kight.
If ratified, the new contracts will go into effect Dec. 2, 2008, and will
expire Oct. 6, 2012.
