Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA)

06/17/2026

Red Shirt Wednesday! SPEEA members (at top) gathered at the Twin Aisle Cafe in the Everett factory; while volunteers handed out red shirts and visibility items in Renton.

06/17/2026

The Midwest Young Professionals Committee met recently for a no-host evening at Social Tap Drinkery in Wichita. The group meets on the third Thursday of each month. For more information about this and other SPEEA committees in both the Midwest and Northwest, go online at https://speea.org/committees/

06/15/2026

Work from home, artificial intelligence and "a return to market-leading compensation" are among the contract priorities for the white-collar union heading into its first full-scale negotiations in more than a decade. SPEEA represents 17,000 Boeing engineers, technical workers, pilots and other professionals across the West Coast.

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Wave of red shirts signals engineers’ solidarity with pay, AI and remote work at stake in upcoming negotiations

06/15/2026

"Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable," the Air Force announced in an afternoon update. "Emergency response personnel are on scene, and officials are working to account for all personnel."

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed just after taking off from Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California on Monday, authorities said.

06/11/2026

Lunching and learning al fresco! SPEEA President Andrew Sherman hosted lunchtime meetings outside the 10-18 and 10-20 Buildings in Renton this week. Our union's contract priorities and next steps in the negotiations process were top items on the agenda.

06/09/2026

Corporations are posting record profits, CEOs are collecting eight-figure bonuses, and working people who make it all happen are falling farther behind. This is no accident.

It's the result of deliberate choices.

Editor’s note: The AFL-CIO national convention is in Minnesota this week. See our coverage here and here. Construction workers learned recently that they were owed $1.28 million in wages and damages a...

06/09/2026

"We're adding another production line, it's really a carbon copy of what you see here in Renton," Ortberg said. "We'll be loading our first airplane on July 6, so just about a month from now, we'll be bringing that [fourth] line alive."

The new 737 Max final assembly line in Everett, Washington, will serve as a catalyst for increasing Max production to 52 jets per month.

06/08/2026

Scenes from Saturday's annual SPEEA conference. Council Reps and officers from across the Midwest and Northwest came together for a day of training on topics ranging from grievance handling to game theory and tactical planning for contract campaigns.