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UNI affiliate SPEEA, the union representing engineers and other

professionals at the Boeing Company calls on management to avoid a strike and

negotiate a fair contract with the International Association of Machinists (IAM).



"This is a failure of Boeing management," said Ray Goforth, executive

director of SPEEA. "By forcing this strike vote, Boeing management has

again failed its customers, employees and its shareholders."



"The company has bulging coffers, plane orders to the horizon and was

faced with reasonable union demands," Goforth said. "Instead of sharing

the success of the Boeing Company with the employees who made it

successful, Boeing is trying to force employees to accept takeaways.



"There is no reason a strike should happen," Goforth added.

"Shareholders should hold Boeing executives accountable."



SPEEA is scheduled to start main table negotiations Oct. 28 for new

three-year contracts covering 21,515 employees at Boeing in Washington,

Oregon, Utah, Kansas and California. As with the IAM, negotiations start

as Boeing has an order backlog worth $346 billion and expects revenue

for the year to top $68 billion.