SEATTLE — Boeing’s engineering union is formally investigating its members’ claims that the corporate is shifting work to non-union areas within the United States and overseas.
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) formally started investigating the allegations in December, when it requested related info from Boeing, the union’s director of strategic improvement Rich Plunkett mentioned Wednesday.
Union officers worry the corporate is utilizing a company-wide downsizing mandate to attract jobs away from the Seattle space, the place SPEEA represents 17,000 Boeing staff.
In October, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg mentioned the corporate would reduce about 10% of its workforce, or 17,000 jobs, “to align with our monetary actuality.” The U.S. planemaker posted losses of almost $8 billion within the first 9 months of 2024. The firm is predicted to report additional losses when it releases year-end outcomes on Tuesday.
In November and December, Boeing issued layoff notices to greater than 4,000 U.S. staff, together with 660 to SPEEA members, based on publicly obtainable state and union labor data.
Soon after the primary set of notices went out, SPEEA officers started listening to from members that “no less than a number of the work carried out by these topic to layoffs is now being despatched to different Boeing areas,” Plunkett mentioned.
Boeing declined to remark Wednesday.
(Reporting by Dan Catchpole in Seattle; Editing by Gerry Doyle)
