SPEEA Rejects Boeing Contract Offer

TUKWILA, Wash. (Metro) -- Boeing's offer of a new contract for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace is rejected by a large majority of the union membership.

Ninety-six percent of the union engineers and technical workers who participated in the voting submitted "no" votes after SPEEA had urged its members to reject the initial contract offer.

Boeing officials say the union can't stage a strike until after November 25, even though the current contract expires October 6.

Boeing and union representatives are slated to resume negotiations this afternoon.

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