Our SPEEA Negotiation Team resumed talks with the Boeing Co. on Monday, continuing with the interest-based bargaining approach.
Our team met with Boeing to discuss three primary topics:
- Boeing’s use of Purchased Services, meaning the practice of hiring outside companies to perform engineering work, instead of hiring SPEEA-represented engineers or techs.
- Problems that the high turnover among Boeing managers causes for SPEEA members, particularly in the areas of career development, raises and retention ratings.
- Discussion of career development opportunities for members of SPEEA’s Tech unit.
“The churn among Boeing managers affects SPEEA members in several ways,” said Negotiation Team member Andrew Ferguson, an Associate Technical Fellow who works as a principal technical lead engineer on KC-46 mission systems.
“If a manager only leads an engineering or technical team for a few months, do they have time to truly understand what their team members do?” he asked. “And if they don’t know, how can they effectively evaluate our performance or help us with our career development?”
Talks are scheduled to continue on Tuesday.
The Negotiation Team is seeking your input on issues that are likely to come up during our meetings with Boeing this week. Because we need the data right away, it is essential that you take the survey.
Deadline: Thursday, July 16 at 6 a.m. (PT)