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Boeing engineers to vote on latest contract offer

This coming Monday, the second largest Boeing union will vote on the latest offer from the American airplane manufacturer.

This vote, which consists of more than 20,000 members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), will determine whether the aircraft company will suffer another strike in its Seattle-based manufacturing plants. This development comes 58 days after the engineers went on strike.

The two sides reached a temporary agreement a couple of weeks ago; however the contract must be approved by the simple majority for ratification through a postal ballot.

“Two contracts are at stake,” according to a report from AirWiseNews.com. “The first covers 13,898 Boeing engineers and the second covers 6,576 technical workers. The vast majority work at Boeing’s Seattle-area plants, but some are also located in Oregon, Utah and California. Both contracts are set to expire on December 1.”

In addition to that, the SPEEA members will also vote on strike authorization—which gives union organizers the go signal to call for another strike, as long as they’re backed by the simple majority.

Sources claim that the outcome of the deal is unlikely to happen, since history say that Boeing workers have only gone on strike in a select few times.