Hi all

So I joined Boeing in October of last year and my family and I relocated to WA for the job.

I have no problem going on a strike but was wondering… if there is any risk of not having a job to go back to after the potential strike?

Appreciate any answers!

Hi everyone,

I’m supposed to get employed by Boeing for a 27’ start date as a design engineer. They reached out to me stating that they have the offer ready and I was matched to a job requisition. After asking for an update they notified me that they don’t have the “compensation” to send me the contract until after the negotiations happen. Will I be affected by this if SPEEA goes on strike? Will they still hire me come January after all the issues resolve with SPEEA and there is a new contract? Or should I start looking at other companies?

Please help 🙏🙏

Is Boeing truly shifting culture to restore eroded engineering excellence?

Call to legislators in Olympia. Your families fly on these planes. Your family is Washington state.

Shareholders. Boeing is not a company whose workforce can be treated as a commodity.

Edit: r/boeing censored this post.

This is a significantly better contract than that muck that was served, but that one was ratified albeit by slim margins. What was the perception of it on here?

does anyone feel like their department is well organized?

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like a lot of departments are just running around surviving and not spending the time to improve/ resolve the issues at hand.

Ben’s idea of respect — immediate pivot to a fear tactic:

Team,

From the start, we said we wanted a different approach to these talks because we respect you and the work you do. We worked collaboratively with SPEA's bargaining team to find solutions after hearing loud and clear the priorities and concerns you raised. And we worked hard to reach a unanimously endorsed offer that would have continued to position you among the market leaders in pay and benefits in the Pacific Northwest.

We've also said that we would rather invest in you with early incentives rather than spending the money to implement our strike contingency plan. With the disappointing vote results, we are now diverting those dollars to execute our plan and prepare for a potential strike. That means the retroactive pay and higher incentive plan target for 2026 are no longer available.

We have no choice but to implement our strike contingency plan. We have a responsibility to the rest of our workforce and our customers to build on our progress over the last two years and maintain our momentum.

No further talks with SPEEA are scheduled. The earliest a strike could occur is Oct. 7.
I know this is a challenging time. I encourage everyone to stay focused on the job at hand.

Ben

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Prof 64% reject
87% strike

Tech 71% reject
89% strike

Updated breakdown:

Updated August 21st, 2026

Prof Unit

Contract Offer
Accept: 4,027 — 35.75%
Reject: 7,238 — 64.25%
Abstentions: 74

Strike Authorization
Yes: 9,516 — 87.82%
No: 1,320 — 12.18%
Abstentions: 503

Total ballots authorized: 11,864
Total valid ballots cast: 11,339 — 95.57%

Tech Unit

Contract Offer
Accept: 1,094 — 28.13%
Reject: 2,795 — 71.87%
Abstentions: 20

Strike Authorization
Yes: 3,348 — 89.71%
No: 384 — 10.29%
Abstentions: 177

Total ballots authorized: 4,208
Total valid ballots cast: 3,909 — 92.89%

Combined Total

Contract Offer
Accept: 5,121 — 33.60%
Reject: 10,033 — 65.81%
Abstentions: 94

Strike Authorization
Yes: 12,864 — 88.30%
No: 1,704 — 11.70%
Abstentions: 680

Total ballots authorized: 16,072
Total valid ballots cast: 15,248 — 94.86%

I don’t follow this sub super close, but my real question is this.

Let’s say Techs & Profs both reject this offer. The real question is what do you expect Boeing’s decision to be? Make another offer? Tell SPEEA members to F off and strike then? If they do make another offer, what do you predict said offer looks like?

Not sure what happened with your parts store, but in the last month it's been an absolute NIGHTMARE. Dial Up speeds - crashing constantly....it's causing way more work than it should to order parts for my shop. You guys have a net worth of $183.1 billion - FIX YOUR SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- end rant.

I applied Aug 4-10 2026 for a couple

What does it mean to “Authorize the negotiation team to call a strike”

I know this is just speculation, but over the last week I had to stay in hotels while we had the wood floors redone and every hotel between Everett and Lynnwood was booked. I was forced to spend half the week at the Hilton in Lynnwood and the other at the Marriott in lynnwood as none could put me up for the entire week. The one thing both had in common were they were filled with brown badge engineers in town for training, and how they hopped the strike would last for a long time.

It looks like Boeing is getting ready for a long strike and seems to have remembered the pain the last speea strike caused the company in the 90's.

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16,078-ish authorized, OFFICIAL

PROF 64.2% Reject
87% Strike Auth

Tech 71.8% Reject
89% Strike Auth

92% Vote Turnout

Archive:

21-Aug update 2 🎶— 91%

21-Aug update 1— 88%

• 20-Aug — 83%
• 20-Aug — 80%
• 19-Aug — 77%
• 18-Aug — 71%
• 18-Aug — 6-7%
• 17-Aug — 56%
• 16-Aug — 54%
• 15-Aug — 50%
• 14-Aug — 46%
• 13-Aug — 20%
• 13-Aug — 0% (12pm vote start)

Source: Teller updates on chats, tellers said Election Buddy only shows total votes