SPEEA Joins IAFF Informational Pickets

From Ray Goforth, Executive Director of SPEEA
“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.” 

“While it puts the safety of Boeing employees in jeopardy, it also puts the airline customers’ in-production aircraft at risk, and Boeing’s own shareholders should worry about the risk to Boeing’s multi-billion-dollar facilities that this action represents.”  

“For a company that’s supposed to be committed to a renewed focus on safety, this is awfully risky behavior, and it calls into question the sincerity of Boeing leadership’s words.”

 “Our contract requires us to continue working through this lockout, but SPEEA of course will support the IAFF Local I-66 fire fighters in any way we can.”

SPEEA represents more than 16,000 engineers, scientists, pilots and technical workers at Boeing facilities in Washington state, Oregon, California and Utah.

About a dozen SPEEA officers, Council Reps and staff members joined 150 union Fire Fighters from across Washington state and members of other unions at Boeing for informational pickets in support of IAFF Local I-66 on Monday outside Boeing factories in Renton and Everett, Wash.