We put two polls into the public domain this week, asking whether SPEEA and Boeing will reach an agreement next month; and if not, will SPEEA strike (a target date is Feb. 1).
The results are in: 61% expect no agreement when talks resume Jan. 9 and 57% expect SPEEA to strike. (These figures reflect results as of this writing. The data may change after this post because polling is still open.)
The percentages are a significant drop from the 96% vote that rejected the Boeing contract offer in October, but it should be noted there is no new offer on the table for SPEEA members to read and evaluate.
Additionally, this poll is of our readers and not specific to SPEEA.
Clearly the expectations are not good.
SPEEA’s executive director, Ray Goforth, is on record expecting talks to fail immediately when they resume because the gap between the union asks and the Boeing positions are so far apart. A strike vote will be solicited once talks break off.
Unlike the IAM 751, which requires a two-thirds affirmative vote for a strike, SPEEA requires only a simple majority.
The results are in: 61% expect no agreement when talks resume Jan. 9 and 57% expect SPEEA to strike. (These figures reflect results as of this writing. The data may change after this post because polling is still open.)
The percentages are a significant drop from the 96% vote that rejected the Boeing contract offer in October, but it should be noted there is no new offer on the table for SPEEA members to read and evaluate.
Additionally, this poll is of our readers and not specific to SPEEA.
Clearly the expectations are not good.
SPEEA’s executive director, Ray Goforth, is on record expecting talks to fail immediately when they resume because the gap between the union asks and the Boeing positions are so far apart. A strike vote will be solicited once talks break off.
Unlike the IAM 751, which requires a two-thirds affirmative vote for a strike, SPEEA requires only a simple majority.
“We have no specific target [for a strike vote] other than that,”
Goforth tells us. ” SPEEA is a democratically run union. Decisions are
made by majority vote as supplemented by broad consultation with the
membership (townhall type meetings, polls, feedback from the elected
councils).
“In the run-up to the October 1st vote the Boeing management
negotiating team confidently predicted that the contract would be
adopted because they knew what the employees wanted better than the
union,” Goforth wrote us.
“Today, we at hearing the same language from Boeing management.
Today, we are experiencing the same dismissiveness and disregard from
Boeing management.
“Boeing management is still proposing across-the-board pay and
benefit cuts for engineers and techs while increasing compensation for
themselves and the shareholders. We expect any such proposal to be
rejected by the membership.”
http://leehamnews.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/leeham-on-line-poll-61-expect-no-contract-agreement-with-speea-boeing-57-expect-strike/
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