SPEEA’s director of strategic development, Rich Plunkett, was in Washington, DC this week to attend a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing entitled “FAA Oversight of Aviation Manufacturing”.
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SPEEA Contract Administrator Peter Campbell was among the union’s staff and activists who joined unionized flight attendants from Alaska and American Airlines near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for an International Day of Action called by the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America on Thursday, June 13.
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President Biggs was the final speaker at this year’s SPEEA Annual Convention and Leadership Conference, which was held June 7-8 near Seattle. More than 100 SPEEA officers and Council Reps from Washington, Kansas, Oregon, California, and Utah attended.
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The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) endorses Rick Larsen as he seeks his 13th term to represent Everett, Bellingham, and surrounding areas in Washington State in the Second Congressional District.
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Boeing’s lockout of its unionized firefighters has ended after members of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local I-66 overwhelmingly approved a new contract offer from the company.
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IFPTE’s strong stand of Solidarity with IAFF I-66 members continued as former IFPTE President and Secretary-Treasurer, Paul Shearon, and retired SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 Communications Director, Bill Dugovich, joined the IAFF picket line.
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SPEEA and the law firm of Katz Banks Kumin LLP teamed up up to provide SPEEA Council Reps at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems with free training on federal whistleblower laws.
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This week’s passage and enactment of the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, legislation that extends the Federal Aviation Authority’s (FAA) authorization for five years, includes several key wins for IFPTE members.
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IFPTE reinforced SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s strong stand of Solidarity this week with the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Local I-66 members employed by the Boeing Company, who were locked out by the aerospace giant on May 4th.
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“This lockout will do nothing but further compromise safety practices at The Boeing Company. It puts our members at risk, because we do not foresee Boeing will find anywhere close to enough strikebreakers to safely staff its fire stations,” says SPEEA ED Ray Goforth.
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This week, Congress unveiled the compromise Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024. As the Senate began considering the bill this week, IFPTE told Senators the bill includes IFPTE members’ priorities and urged them to pass it before the May 10 deadline for FAA program authorities.
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This week, IFPTE President Matt Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee leaders this week urging them to reauthorize the all-important Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s director of strategic development, Rich Plunkett, was in Washinton, DC this week to attend the Spring Aerospace Supply Chain Resilience (ASCR) task force meeting.
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The problems in Boeing's executive suite are systemic. Nothing is going to change for the better without company leadership acknowledging their failures and thoroughly committing to fixing them.
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SPEEA’s 2024 Wichita Engineering Unit (WEU) negotiations team was named this week. The team, which consists of Benjamin Blankley, Laura Dame Santry, R Matthew Joyce, Brennan Macklin, and Derek Milligan, was elected after the WEU Bargaining Unit Council (BUC) met and elected the negotiations team.
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A delegation of 10 SPEEA officers and staff were on hand to show support as Machinists Union members began talks with Boeing on a new labor agreement.
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Dima replaces Ryan Rule, who had served two terms as SPEEA president and under the union’s governing documents was unable to seek a third consecutive term.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001, the union for Flight Technical and Safety Pilots with Boeing’s Flight Operations Group, says it has first-hand experience of the kinds of safety-culture problems an expert panel reported on earlier this week.
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A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) panel of experts, which included SPEEA Director of Strategic Development Rich Plunkett, spent the past 14 months reviewing safety procedures and quality processes at the Boeing Co.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001, fellow labor unions, and community supporters will hold a labor rally to protect striking workers on Wednesday, February 28, at noon, on the State Capitol Steps in Olympia, WA.
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