SEATTLE — Boeing’s new contract offer to 17,000 engineers and technical workers in Western Washington has been unanimously endorsed by the union’s bargaining team, according to the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace , SPEEA.
SPEEA’s Bargaining Unit Councils, have a meeting scheduled tonight to discuss the offer. They will determine if they want to recommend, reject or remain neutral to the union membership which totals 20,000 across Washington, Oregon, California, Utah and Kansas.
Details on voting are still being finalized, according to a SPEEA press release. The new contract is for four years. The existing SPEEA contract expires October 6.
Andrew Ferguson, Negotiation Team member and an Associate Technical Fellow and Engineering Unit Member, supports the contract offer, saying, “Our task was simple in principle, but complex in reality. We took the survey and contract enforcement data and distilled it down to the Contract Priorities we put forth in May. When I look at the final offer Boeing has presented, we have been able to achieve meaningful movement from all of those areas.”
The team also emphasized there are no takeaways.
The offers provide for:
- Wage pools compounding to 29.4% over the four years of the contract 31.9% when factoring in promotions and out of sequence. This is the union s largest wage-pool increase since 1983;
- Guaranteed minimum wage increases tied to inflation;
- A 40% increase in the target payout for the unions annual incentive bonus plan;
- An immediate pay increase of 3% retroactive to Feb. 20
- Plus an amount equal to 40% of each union member’s 2026 incentive bonus;
- 40 units of restricted Boeing stock, worth more than $9,000 at today’s price
- Three extra days of paid leave for everyone.
- Lower limits on mandatory overtime.
- Improvements in health and dental bene ts with no change in cost to union members.
- More opportunities for virtual work.
- A commitment for twice-annual meetings with the president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and other senior Boeing executives to discuss how