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Leeham News and Analysis
- Hopes for 1Q financial progress turns into bumpy ride for Boeing April 21, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 18. April 18, 2025
- Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order April 17, 2025
- China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war April 15, 2025
- Boeing welcomes COMAC competition as Asia-Pacific demand soars April 15, 2025
SPEEA-Boeing dispute appears headed for work slowdown
SPEEA union members are quietly gearing up for a “work-to-the-rules” approach that could amount to a work slowdown as voting begins on a contract offer by the company. SPEEA’s negotiating team recommends a “no” vote on the contract…. Read More
SPEEA to members: reject Boeing contract offer
Late Monday, SPEEA, the engineers union, issued this press release urging members to vote down a contract offer from Boeing. SEATTLE – On Monday, Sept. 17, the SPEEA Professional and Technical Bargaining Unit Councils voted to send Boeing’s… Read More
Boeing & SPEEA: shifting work brings its own hazards–and costs
Boeing & SPEEA: As we routinely do when it comes to trying to understand rhetoric of two warring parties (usually Airbus and Boeing but in this case SPEEA and Boeing), we reach out to third parties. We asked… Read More
Is Boeing Chicago misreading the SPEEA mood–as it did IAM 751 in 2008?
There have been many articles this week detailing the increasingly contentious, evolving situation in the contract negotiations between Boeing and the engineers union, SPEEA. We’ve previously written that this wasn’t going to be a love-fest. And it isn’t…. Read More
Odds and Ends: Airbus takes a look at the future; Air India gets 787 Saturday; John Leahy
Looking at the future: Airbus takes a look at the future in this company-issued document. Airbus discusses the environment, Air Traffic Management and more. This link has more information about how Airbus looks at the future. Air India:… Read More
After-thoughts of Qantas 787 cancellation, SPEEA and Boeing
A day after it became public Qantas Airways canceled 35 Boeing 787-9s, it might be worthwhile giving a thought or two. The Wall Street Journal has a good story (unfortunately, paid-subscription, though it may show up via Google… Read More
Boeing and SPEEA: the debate heats up
Boeing’s engineers’ union, SPEEA, has been pretty vocal in its campaign to members with internal statements, its website and on Twitter–the latter certainly read by media. Boeing now has launched a public website of its own.
SPEEA, Boeing contract: Don’t expect an “IAM breakthrough”
SPEEA, the engineers union at Boeing, and the company appear to be at odds in the early stages of contract negotiations and there appears virtually no chance of a surprise breakthrough similar to the IAM 751-Boeing contract last… Read More
Observations on labor, Boeing
As we prepare to head off to the Paris Air Show, there have been a couple of important developments on the labor front with Boeing. First, what we consider to be good news. SPEEA, the engineers union representing… Read More
“Earning” the right to build airplanes at Boeing
The Boeing Co. seems to be at never-ending crossroads. The development of the 787 was to be a game-changer with an entry-into-service planned for May 2008. If this had happened on time, this innovative airplane would have set… Read More