Sept 3, 2013
NW13-024
To: NW
Council Representatives
From: Joel Funfar (NW VP), Dave Baine
(A-40), Orlando De Los Santos (R-50), Gordon Yip (P-1), Theryl Johnson (P-5),
Brent McFarlane (E-22), Mahliek Barnes (E-13) Tony Hickerson (K-2), Ron Mathes
(D-6), Judy Mogan (A-10), Dennis Davaz (E-14), Janet Covarrubias (E-2), Sandy
Hastings (E-18), Suzanne Kamiya (E-60), Charles Tatel (R-20), Roger Aisaka
(X-10)
Subject: Pre-Submitted New Business: Support of SPFPA Local 5 facing outsourcing of
Boeing guards to non-union contracted Guards.
Background
SPEEA members have enjoyed being protected by
professional, quality, union guards at Boeing.
Boeing Guards are represented by International Union,
Security, Police, Fire professionals of America (SPFPA), Local 5.
Local
5, SPFPA has been in existence since 1956 and has approximately 210 Security
Officers & Dispatchers working in Washington State. These Security Officers
provide site protection at several plants in the Puget Sound for the Boeing
Aircraft Company. On 7/18/2013 Boeing announced to SPFPA that Boeing was
immediately implementing provisions of Letter of Understanding (LOU) No 1 of
their CBA. Boeing will outsource the work to Allied Barton. The remaining SPFPA
union guards will work in Everett, and Seattle, Tukwila and Developmental
Center areas. Allied Barton will take over security in Renton, Auburn,
Fredrickson, Longacres, and Bellevue. 146 guards hired before Nov. 22, 2006
will keep their jobs. At least 64 or more will face layoff. The Puget Sound area plants are the
last of Boeing’s sites to retain uniformed security in-house. Boeing began
outsourcing security elsewhere around the country in October 2007.
AlliedBarton, headquartered in
Conshohocken, Penn., has provided security at most Boeing sites nationwide
since March 2011.
Seattle
Times Article:
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021603378_boeingsecurityxml.html
For more
information:
http://spfpa5.homestead.com/LatestNews.html
http://spfpa5.homestead.com/boeing.html
Motion
It is moved that
the NW SPEEA Council supports SPFPA Local 5. The NW Council requests the Executive
Board provide Staff with direction to take steps in informing our members about
the outsourcing of Boeing union guards via our publications and information
networks and urge our members to thank the union guards that are members of
SPFPA Local 5.
It is further moved that the Northwest Council supports
SPFPA in future contract negotiations that they will have with Boeing in 2017.