ADVISORY/Boeing, SPEEA, Press Conference Called for 4 p.m.; Four Involved in Titan Launch Join Strike.Business Editors ADVISORY...for March 3 --(BUSINESS WIRE) Four engineers assigned to the upcoming launch of a $1 billion defense satellite walked off the job and joined striking co-workers on the picket line here today. The workers said they walked because The Boeing Company is pressing them to do jobs they do not feel qualified to perform. The Nuclear Launch Detection Satellite was scheduled to launch by a Titan rocket on April 9. A press conference with the workers and other striking Boeing employees at Cape Canaveral is scheduled for 4 p.m. (EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy ) today, at the Badging Center located near the Cape's South Gate, along Florida Highway 401. More than 19,000 engineers and technical workers walked off the job Feb. 9 when the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) is a major Boeing engineering employee labor union. It is often known for its massive member base. External links
SPEEA Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association , IFPTE IFPTE International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers Local 2001, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. ) struck Boeing in Washington State, Oregon, California, Arizona and Florida. The strike has impacted every facet of Boeing, including airplane deliveries, defense programs, customer service, and programs at Cape Canaveral. The four additions to the strike here mean 100 percent of the electrical engineers assigned to Cape Canaveral by Boeing are now on strike. The strikers have picketed the Cape Canaveral Air Station South for 24 days. Boeing has 10 electrical engineers at the Cape. The Boeing Company ended a second session of mediated talks with the union late Saturday, Feb. 26, when they refused to consider a union counter proposal. The three-day session was the second mediated by the nation's top mediator, C. Richard Barnes, director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent agency of the U.S. government that seeks to prevent or settle disputes between labor unions and management that affect interstate commerce. . On Wed., March 1, Boeing hand delivered a letter to the union's Seattle headquarters that stated the company considers talks at an impasse. Today, the union filed an unfair labor practice Conduct prohibited by federal law regulating relations between employers, employees, and labor organizations. Before 1935 U.S. labor unions received little protection from the law. charge against Boeing that charges the company has repeatedly refused to negotiate in good faith. SPEEA members rejected two contract proposals before striking. Each proposal contained benefit takeaways and pools of money that keep engineers and other technical workers below market level wages. The offers also lacked a bonus. The International Association of Machinists (IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. ), which represents about 45,000 Boeing employees, took a 10 percent bonus from Boeing during their contract negotiations last year. SPEEA represents about 22,000 engineers and other technical workers in seven states. |
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