The Bargaining Unit Councils of the Northwest Prof and Tech bargaining units elected the teams that will represent us in negotiations with Boeing later this year.
There are two teams: One for the Prof unit and one for the Techs.
The newly elected teams are comprised of (in alphabetical order):
Profs
- Mike Berryhill
- Katheryn Durkee
- Andrew Ferguson
Prof Alternates
- John Dimas
- Chelsie Krome
- Benjamin Merrit
- Alex Phillips
- Ryan Rule
- Ben Weldon
Techs
- Matthew Burgner
- Dan Nowlin
- Debi Pennington
Tech Alternates
- Kevin Boyd
- Byron Henderson
- Suzanne Kamiya-Harding
- John Little
- Brian Newton
- Rick O’Neill
- Tami Reichersamer
- Christopher Tracy
- Tristan Vogeler
Next steps
The newly elected team members will begin training for negotiations with support from SPEEA staff subject matter experts. They will begin reviewing data collected by the Negotiations Prep Committee, once it is available.
Negotiations with Boeing will begin later this year. (A date for that has not been set.) Our two contracts, for nearly 16,000 members of the Prof and Tech units, will expire on Oct. 6.