Avoiding the possibility for a second strike at Boeing, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace voted in favor of a four-year contract with the airplane maker on Monday. The Union is the second largest union at Boeing, representing more than 20,000 engineers and technicians at the company. The agreement took two weeks of negotiations to draft, and was then approved by a majority vote of the SPEEA membership. The deal includes two contracts, covering engineers and technical workers separately. The contracts start today, and expire in 2012.
See "Boeing Engineers Approve Work Contract", The New York Times, December 1, 2008