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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Boeing, SEEPA Resume Contract Talks this Week Amidst 787 Dreamliner Fiasco

Both sides concluded first day of talks on Wednesday at 7 p.m. according to SEEPA's Facebook page.

Negotiators representing 23,000 Boeing Co engineers resumed contract talks on Wednesday after a review of the company's latest offer. The companies did not agree over a new contract as the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) posted on it's Facebook page Wednesday night, "Negotiations with Boeing concluded for the day. Will resume Thursday at 9 a.m." Wednesday was also a crucial day for Boeing as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration grounded all of Boeing's 787 aircraft, after fires and emergency landings. (Get instant news updates. Like Hazelwood Patch on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.) The latest Boeing offer increases pay raises for professional workers by 5 percent in each of the first two years of…

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City of Hazelwood, Boeing Is Cutting Jobs Locally, Local Impacts: Boeing Engineers' Contract Negotiations Closer to a Strike, and 3 more ›

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Boeing, SPEEA Suspend Contract Negotiations, Will Resume in 2013

A strike is not off the table yet. Talks should resume some time in the New Year, most likely late January or early February.

The holidays may be a bit more cheerful for Boeing employees in the Puget Sound area. A federal mediator has suspended talks between Boeing and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SEEPA), the union representing 22,765 engineers and technical workers, until after the first of the year. Talks have unraveled in the past two weeks and that is why Boeing requested a federal mediator be brought in. (Get instant news updates. Like Hazelwood Patch on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen issued the following statement recently: “At the request of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, negotiations between The Boeing Company and the Society of …

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The Boeing Company, City of Hazelwood, Boeing Is Cutting Jobs Locally, and 4 more ›

Ashley Nevilles

8:48 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012

I hope they can come to a resolution so these people don't have to be without pay. If your worker really work for you commensurate them the way you know you should.   more ›

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