Recognizing the importance of opening SPEEA to professionals outside The Boeing Company and Spirit AeroSystems, SPEEA union members overwhelmingly approved a Constitutional Referendum to ease that process.
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Paul Shearon talked this week directly to his fellow SPEEA/Local 2001 members about the importance of voting to pass a union referendum aimed at broadening the Local’s ability to organize in the aerospace industry.
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Facing a steady loss of members and The Boeing Company pushing more jobs outside SPEEA-Local 2001 represented bargaining units, the SPEEA Council recently approved a membership vote to remove roadblocks to expanding SPEEA’s membership.
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While any month is a good time to join a SPEEA committee, June is particularly good because members gain immediate voting rights by attending the first committee meeting after the Council Convention, which this year was June 2.
Read MoreLast weekend, SPEEA-Local 2001 hosted their annual leadership conference, which included a keynote speech by investigative journalist Peter Robison.
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IFPTE SPEEA Area VP Matthew Joyce,was in Washington, D.C. this week to represent IFPTE at a labor reception to recognize the work of and raise funds for the Bluestem Kansas and the Kansas Values Institute.
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The grants are distributed to help non-profit organizations promoting students’ interest in STEM-
related careers.
SPEEA associate member and former IFPTE Vice President, Donna Lehane, was sworn in last month as a Vice President for the Kansas AFL-CIO.
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Winners in the 2021 International Labor Communicators Awards (ILCA) include SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 Publications Editor Karen McLean and Graphic & Web Designer Lori Dupuis. The awards are all in the "National" category which puts SPEEA in competition with the largest labor unions in the U.S.
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SPEEA union members and allies across the U.S. participated in actions to demand the U.S. Senate pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). This bill is a comprehensive and urgently needed labor law reform that restores workers' democratic right to form and join a union and bargain collectively.
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Students from the Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School robotics team won multiple awards last month in the Kansas Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) robotics competition. Students and teachers from the winning team joined the virtual SPEEA Midwest Council meeting in May to thank the union for their longstanding support of the BEST program.
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SPEEA-Local 2001 hosted its annual leadership conference on Saturday, June 12th. The conference, under the theme “Uniting for a Better Future”, was held virtually and attended by more than 100 elected council representatives.
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IFPTE welcomes the news that former SPEEA-Local 2001 Legislative Director Chelsea Mason-Placek has rejoined the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) as the Workforce Development Director. Mason-Placek will takes on the role as longtime WSLC Workforce Development Director Bill Messenger retires.
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IFPTE Sec.-Treas./Legislative Director Matt Biggs commented that, “IFPTE applauds and thanks SPEEA for continuing to be one of IFPTE’s leading locals in stepping up strong in support of the IFPTE PAC program.“
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 is leading the way within the IFPTE family in urging Congress to move quickly in passing historic labor law reform to bring fairness back to the private sector organizing process.
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IFPTE members at SPEEA/Local 2001 and throughout our federation are urging Congress to include Aviation Jobs Manufacturing Act in the upcoming COVID relief package.
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IFPTE sent out a series of mailers in support of three SPEEA members – Matthew Joyce (Kansas House, District 81) , Derek Milligan (Kansas House, District 94) and Charity Kennedy (Sedgwick County Treasurer) – all seeking political office in Kansas.
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The Boeing Company’s decision to consolidate 787 production in North Charleston and abandon its Dreamliner line in Everett is disappointing and frustrating to the thousands of engineers, technical workers and pilots represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001).
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 issued the following press release: The Boeing Company delivered layoff notices to its remaining seven Flight Training Airplane (FTA) pilots and will instead send the critical work of providing on-site training to airline customers to an overseas contract house. The 60-day notices of layoff eliminate all direct Boeing FTA pilots by the end of November – a critical moment in Boeing’s plan to return the 737MAX to service and start delivering the roughly 400 airplanes now parked around the West Coast.
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The union representing engineers, pilots and other technical workers at Boeing sharply criticized the aircraft manufacturer today for its decision to fire the company’s U.S.-based training pilots and replace them with contract workers from Cambridge Communications Limited, a company located on the Isle of Man, a tax haven in the middle of the Irish Sea.
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