By Scott Hamilton * Editor at Large
September 22, 2026
The Bargaining Unit Councils (BUCs) of SPEEA, the union representing Boeing’s engineers and technicians, recommended membership approval of two contracts offered by Boeing.
The first contracts were rejected in a vote last month. Both current contracts expire on October 6.
The BUCs, one for each group and contract, recommended approval late this afternoon. Voting for the new contracts begins on Thursday, continuing to noon on October 1. Vote results will be announced that afternoon.
Boeing and the union hope to avoid a strike that could interrupt Boeing’s financial recovery and production ramp-up to the rates in place on March 10, 2019: 52 per month for 737s and 12 a month for 787s. The current rates are 47 per month and about nine per month, respectively. Boeing has yet to achieve a steady production rate for the 737s at the Renton plant.
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Achieved 60% threshold
“The Bargaining Unit Councils for SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units are both recommending that their members accept the company’s latest contract offer,” SPEEA said in a press release. “Representatives on both councils voted by the required 60% supermajorities to make the recommendations on Tuesday.
“The offers ‘meet most of the needs of the members’ by ‘winning gains for most priorities outlined at the outset of negotiations, the council for the Professional Unit said.”
The BUC for the technicians raised a note of caution, however. “Members should ‘examine both the advantages and limitations of the proposed agreement and determine whether it meets their expectations and priorities,’” the union said in its press statement.
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