 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
TheSociety of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001 is a professionallabor union representing more than 24,000engineers, technical workers and other professionals in theaerospace industry. SPEEA represents employees at TheBoeing Company,Spirit AeroSystems,BAE Systems and Triumph Composite Systems. Members work inWashington,Kansas,Oregon,Utah,Texas,California, andFlorida.
SPEEA is governed by an elected Executive Board and Council, but daily operations are handled by a professional staff and Executive Director. Union headquarters are in Seattle, withbranch offices andunion halls inEverett, Washington andWichita, Kansas.
According to Richard Henning, SPEEA's co-founder and engineer, SPEEA's earliest beginnings were meetings at the Seattle YMCA in 1945 to frame its first constitution.[1]
SPEEA was formed in 1946 by a group of Boeing engineers inSeattle, Washington and is an affiliated local union of theInternational Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE). On behalf of its members, SPEEA negotiates contracts withemployers; it also provides assistance with resolving workplace and benefit issues. SPEEA originally stood for Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association.
In an interview in February 2015, the centenarian co-founder Richard Henning, who retired in 1979 as a Boeing Executive remarked,
“It’s a smart idea to have an organization speak for an individual instead of one on one. In the old days, if you sat down to negotiate with the chief of engineering it was pretty difficult to express ideas. Whereas in a union, there was discussion to bring out points and that happened on a daily basis.”[2]
 | This article related to a United States labor union is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
 | This article related to a North American labor union or trade union is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
