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Airline “Boeing can tell Congress and the media all it wants about how ‘retaliation is strictly prohibited,’” said SPEEA Director of Strategic Development Rich Plunkett.
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- “Boeing can tell Congress and the media all it wants about how ‘retaliation is strictly prohibited,’” said SPEEA Director of Strategic Development Rich Plunkett.
- “But our union is fighting retaliation cases on a regular basis, and in this specific case, Boeing is trying to hide information that would shed light on what happened.”
The FAA gives Boeing workers the ability to certify the company’s own work through a practice called Organization Delegation Authorization (ODA).
- That panel found that Boeing workers are reluctant to speak out about potential safety and quality problems, for fear of retaliation.
- SPEEA staff met with Boeing Labor Relations representatives several times in an effort to correct what seemed to the union to be a clear case of retaliation.
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Airline The Boeing Company violated federal labor law by retaliating against seven of its instructor pilots who had engaged in union activity, a federal administrative law judge ruled.
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- The Boeing Company violated federal labor law by retaliating against seven of its instructor pilots who had engaged in union activity, a federal administrative law judge ruled.
- “The ruling is a resounding win for our union-represented pilots,” said Ray Goforth, the executive director of SPEEA, IFPTE Local 2001, which represented the Boeing instructor pilots before their work was outsourced to third-party contractors.
- These Flight Training Airplane (FTA) pilots, along with Flight Technical and Safety (FTS) pilots, make up the SPEEA Pilots and Instructors Unit (SPIU).
- SPEEA represents more than 19,000 engineers, scientists, pilots and technical workers at Boeing in Washington, Kansas, California, Oregon and Utah and Spirit AeroSystems facilities in Kansas.
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Airline SPEEA, the union that represents some two-dozen technical and safety pilots at Boeing, says it is experiencing that as it tries to negotiate a new contract for the pilots.
Key Points:
- SPEEA, the union that represents some two-dozen technical and safety pilots at Boeing, says it is experiencing that as it tries to negotiate a new contract for the pilots.
- The SPEEA-represented Technical and Safety Pilots perform three main functions for Boeing:
They are the company’s liaisons to the Federal Aviation Administration, National Transportation Safety Board and global aviation safety regulators.
- SPEEA declined; Goforth called the request “weird.”
“To put this in context,” he said, “Boeing has systematically hollowed out the SPEEA Pilot Instructors Unit, replacing valued Boeing expertise with contractors.
- That’s four days after the contract for the SPEEA-represented Flight Technical and Safety Pilots expires.
