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SPEEA-Boeing open enrollment May 2-22

SPEEA continues to work the issue of The Boeing Company’s mid-contract change of the no-monthly premi-

um health plan, but the open enrollment period May 2-22 is your only opportunity to change plans.If you currently have Select Network and want to pay no monthly premiums, you will need to change to Traditional Medical Plan (TMP). Although both plans have almost the same doctors available, there are other differences besides the monthly premi-ums. Those differences include co-pay costs, deductibles, out-of-network cov-erage, access to naturopathic and other alternative-medicine providers, and pre-scription drugs. Preventive care also has a dollar and time-period limit for TMP. The Group Health plan is also available (go to www.ghc.org).Wanting to shift more than $8.2 million of health care costs onto SPEEA mem-bers is at the heart of Boeing’s decision to make the Traditional Medical (TMP) the low-cost plan and begin charging premi-ums for the Select Network plan.The extent of the cost-shift occurs if employees do not change medical cover-age during open enrollment. Employees with families will receive the brunt of the higher costs. For more information, see related article on page 2 of this issue of SPEEA News. The May SPEEA Spotlite covers this issue in more depth, and articles are also at www.speea.org.

The Boeing Company The Boeing Company

Negotiations team calls for contract that unites all members

SEATTLE - More than 150 SPEEA members met with representatives of the SPEEA Prof and Tech negotiation

team. They learned about the top issues and asked questions at a lunchtime meet-ing April 24.SPEEA Counc i l Rep s f rom the Developmental Center (DC) organized the meeting, which included a hotdog lunch, to help orient members to upcoming nego-tiations and learn what they can do to sup-port their team.“It was well worth it,” said Allan Howard, a SPEEA member. “There are issues that need to be worked out. It’s helpful for me to know there are people out there fighting for the rights of our union.”SPEEA President Cynthia Cole (a negotia-tion team member) joined Dave Patzwald, chair of the Prof team, Alan Rice, chair of the Tech team, and Sharon Moats, negotiation team member and NW vice president, in talking about what members can do to support the contract talks, such as going to lunchtime meetings, showing union visibility items and responding to the negotiations survey. In response to a question about where the team expects the most resistance, Cole referred to recent media reports quoting Doug Kight as saying more experienced workers are at the top of the market for

salary, while the younger workers are not.“This is a tactic to divide the union in half with younger verse older,” she said. “You can’t stagnate the salaries of experienced workers - Boeing should be market leading for all employees.”She also cited Boeing’s plan to get rid of pensions for new hires, even though it’s been part of the compensation package for decades. The company has promised more in 401(k) contributions, but the amounts would have to be substantial enough to make up the difference that a defined ben-efit pension provides. “You do not want to throw away the value of a pension (in future dollars) for a pittance,” she said.This could also drive a wedge if Boeing were to create a two-tier retirement package that eliminates this benefit for new hires. Once the new hires begin to outnumber those with the pension benefits, what is their incentive for keeping the defined ben-efit guarantees for the existing workforce?Alicia Deery, a SPEEA member for years, said that hadn’t crossed her mind with regard to a two-tier package. “That’s very scary for me - I’ve got 20 years in with the company and probably another 20 to go. I’ve calculated on having certain benefits, and then what if that package is suddenly gone? I’d probably have to work at 7-11 until I’m 80.”

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Seeking candidate for WSLC Board

SPEEA is seeking candidates for the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) Executive Board VP posi-

tion. Kristin Farr, SPEEA’s legislative director, served in the role, which is an at-large vice president position representing all IFPTE Locals in Washington state.Farr steps down this month as she tran-sitions to a virtual position working part-time for SPEEA while with her family in London. Her husband is on a two-year work assignment.

About WSLCThe WSLC’s core programs are legis-lative advocacy, political action, com-munications and media relations, and assistance with organizing campaigns on behalf of more than 500 affiliated unions in the state.The WSLC Executive Board includes the president, secretary-treasurer and 20 vice presidents. The board meets quarterly and establishes policies and programs in between the annual WSLC conventions.

About applyingSend contact information, why you’re interested and qualifications to robinf@speea.org. Deadline: June 2.

Deciding which health care plan is right By Matt KempfSPEEA benefits director

Premiums and how often you and your family need medical care are key factors when deciding between

health care plans.

The premiumsMonthly premiums – what individuals are charged for coverage – are the easi-est to calculate. Keep in mind premiums are pre-tax. For couples filing jointly with taxable income between $65k and $131k, the 2008 marginal tax rate is 25%. Put another way, for each $10 in premiums, your paycheck is only reduced $7.50.

Health-care utilizationPredicting how much you will need health care in the coming year is more difficult. However, most of us can get a good esti-mate by using last year’s expenses as a base-line. If you don’t have that handy, most insurance companies have an online tool for estimating. If you have the Traditional Medical Plan (TMP) or Select Network, go to www.myregence.com. Group Health

members can go to www.ghc.org.When categorizing prescription drugs, be sure to identify if it’s a generic, a formu-lary brand-name drug or a non-formulary brand-name drug. A formulary drug on the TMP may be a non-formulary drug on Select Network and vise versa. With office visits, note if the appointment was preventative, such as an annual physi-cal, or due to illness or injury. You also need to know if the provider was a naturopath or other specialty, which may be treated differ-ently by the insurance company. For an idea about the costs of each visit, The Boeing Company should provide a “Medical Expense Estimator” via Total Access during open enrollment.

Differences in plan benefitsThe TMP is a preferred provider product (PPO) with an opt-out benefit for non-participating providers. If you are sick, you can receive treatment from almost any provider in the world. The TMP plan also utilizes the BlueCard® system, so if you receive treatment outside Washington state, it’s covered as in-network as long as the provider is a BCBS PPO provider.Select Network is an “Exclusive Provider” product (EPO) without an opt-out benefit. You are covered in the case of a life or limb-threatening emergency, but other than those rare situations, benefits are only paid for treatment from a “Select Network” provider. Additional differences include:Preventative Care: Annual physicals in excess of $200 are not covered by TMP. This will be an issue for people with expensive preventative exams such as a colonoscopy. Alternative Medicine: Naturopaths and massage therapy is not covered by TMP, unless a medical doctor is providing the naturopathic services.Retail Pharmacy: On TMP, prescriptions filled at a retail pharmacy are subject to the deductible. Even after the deductible is satis-fied, members still pay the full discounted cost of prescriptions filled at a retail pharma-cy and then a check is mailed to your home based on the applicable benefit percentage.

Putting it all togetherEveryone’s situation is different. It is even possible that two people with the exact same healthcare spending habits will pick different plans based on their level of risk tolerance. On Select Network plan, if you stay in network, the worst-case scenario is co-pays and premiums. On the other hand, the TMP plan worst-case scenario is co-pays, deductibles and up to $4,000 in co-insurance for a family.

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787 QA lateral transfers on hold

SPEEA recently learned The Boeing Company placed a temporary deferral on lateral transfers for all QA Profs and Techs in the JA job family. This will stay in effect through the end of July. SPEEA will

continue to monitor and ensure The Boeing Company honors the con-straints of SPEEA’s contract and Boeing’s own policy: PRO 6477. This is in addition to the hold on 787 manufacturing engineering (ME) and liaison engineer lateral transfers.

Tanker takes center stage at IFPTE legislative conference

WASHINGTON, D.C. - At an IFPTE press conference April 17, U.S. Representatives Norm

Dicks (D-6th district, Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-4th district, Kan.), announced they were going to ask Congress to defund the tanker contract that went to foreign-based EADS. Both of them serve on the U.S. House Defense Appropriations sub-committee.SPEEA President Cynthia Cole, SPEEA Midwest Council Treasurer Debbie Logsdon and IFPTE Pres. Greg Junemann urged Congress to take action at the press conference in support of Boeing’s 767-AT. Generations of SPEEA members have built more than 1,000 commercial 767s and 2,000 military tankers.Cole called on lawmakers to voice their concerns. “We ask for your support in overturning this decision.”They were joined by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers from Washington state and Kansas as well as IFPTE members from SPEEA and other locals who were in town for the IFPTE Legislative Advocacy Week, April 14-17. About 100 came for the conference from IFPTE locals across the country.

Legislative conferenceDuring the week, 10 SPEEA leaders met with about 45 mem-bers of Congress, both Democrat and Republican, to dis-cuss key labor issues such as early retiree medical protection, H-1B visa reform, the impacts of (“free” not “fair”) trade agreements and the tanker decision.SPEEA brought thousands of signatures on tanker peti-tions to present to members of Congress. Splitting up into smaller groups, members met individually with U.S. senators and representatives from all five states with

SPEEA bargaining units. “We were well received,” said Kristin Farr, SPEEA’s legislative director, who has trav-eled to the Capitol repeatedly on behalf of SPEEA in the past 10 years. “We had amazing access to the members of Congress themselves, which is very hard to get - especially on a bipartisan level.”“We’re getting noticed, we’re recognized,” Farr said, in part because of the ongoing

relationships being built with the help of the IFPTE inter-nat ional of f ice . Also, she noted the fact that the politi-cians are paying more attention to white-collar issues. “It’s a testament to SPEEA’s signifi-cance and the role of technical workers in America today.”In addition to the lawmaker meetings, the conference fea-

tured guest speakers such as Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-10th district, Ohio), and Philip Dine, a labor reporter and author of “State of the Unions.” Dine talked about how most

major economic, political and social trends in the U.S. are tied to the state of America’s unions. As part of the Legislative Advocacy Week, IFPTE organized evening networking ses-sions with many lawmakers.

‘Phenomenal success’“This was a phenomenal success,” said Farr. “To have that much access and expo-sure to congressional leaders on issues directly affecting our jobs was fantastic,” she said. “To be able to join in solidarity with our fellow white-collar labor activists from IFPTE showed how much we can accomplish working together.” SPEEA delegates to the conference included three IFPTE vice presidents: Cynthia Cole (SPEEA president), Larry Marrell (NW vice president) and Debbie Logsdon (Midwest Council treasurer and MW Legislative and Public Affairs Committee chair), as well as Judy Mogan (Northwest L&PA chair), Joel Funfar (SPEEA Council secretary and SPEEA L&PA chair), and L&PA activists and Council Reps Mark Slack (NW), Shane Michael (MW) and Earl Carter (MW vice president). SPEEA Labor Representative Stan Sorscher also accom-panied the SPEEA leaders.

The Midwest SPEEA delegation met with Kansas lawmakers. Shown above (l – r): Michael Shane, Debbie Logsdon, U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda (KS-2nd district), and Earl Carter.

CPI – March

The U.S. City Average all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI) for urban wage earners and cleri-cal workers (CPI-W) on a 1982-84=100 base

for March 2008 is 209.2. (On a 1967=100 base, the February index is 622.9). This is a 0.9% increase from February and a 4.3% increase from March 2007. For more details, go to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics web site at www.bls.gov.

SPEEA representatives in Washington, D.C., for the IFPTE Legislative Advocacy Week. The group attended the tanker press conference, met with lawmakers individually and also heard from guest speakers, along with mem-bers of other IFPTE Locals.

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Northwest Council actions – April 10Recogni t ion of new Counci l Representatives: Jerry DiLeonardo (D-10), Tom McCarty (K-1), John M. Klym (R-1), Lawrence Muramoto (R-3), and Chuck Massie (RS-10).The Council voted on the following motions:

NW08-023• - Support AHS Robotics Program - This motion was referred back to committee. NW08-024• NW Policy VIII-A-C. This motion was removed from the agenda.NW08-025• - NW Policy IV, Subsection C - E-Board Minutes. This motion passed. NW08-026• - NW Council Support for Utah, California, and MW region of SPEEA. The motion car-ried unanimously.NW08-027• - Green Job/Good Jobs. This motion passed. NW08-030• - Area Rep Recruitment Challenge. This motion passed. M08-028• - Motion on SPEEA Counc i l po s i t ion a t Boe ing Shareholder meeting. The total of the MW and NW votes will be announced at the next regular Council meeting.

Remembering fallen workers

The Snohomish County Labor Council (SCLC) honored Workers Memorial Day with

special recognition at its meeting April 23. In addition to placing a wreath at the Labor Temple in Everett, SCLC del-egates read the names of 81 who died in Washington state in 2007 because of their work. Workers Memorial Day, April 28, is a day set aside every year to honor workers killed and hurt on the job and highlight the need for improved job safety stan-dards. Shown here are Bob Rommel, SPEEA assistant executive director and Everett contract administrator, and Toni Bohan, contract coordinator with SEIU 925.

Members address worker issues at shareholder meetings

SP E E A s e n t members to address annual

shareholder meet-ings at both Spirit AeroSystems and The Boeing Company in recent weeks.At the Spirit meet-ing April 22, SPEEA members addressed short and long-term incentives and the lack of equity with Spirit productivity bonuses. The SPEEA group also spoke to Jeff Turner, Spirit CEO, and some of the board after the meeting. “Several board members stated that in order for everyone to continue moving the company forward, we should and could all work together,” said Donna Castaneda, Midwest Council chair, who attended both meetings. “Time will tell if we have Christmas in June (when an offer will be voted on),” she said.

C o u n c i l R e p Pat Clough and S P E E A - S p i r i t negotiation team member s Mark Gayer and Terri Sullard (both Area Reps) also went to the meeting in Chantilly, Va., and addressed the board during the question and answer session. At the Boeing meet-

ing in Chicago April 28, Castaneda joined Ruth Mullhatten, a Council Rep and member of the SPEEA-Wichita Engineering Unit negotiation team. Sheree Kennedy, an associate member, also went to the meeting.They addressed medical issues, tanker con-cerns, upcoming work and the class-action early retiree medical bridge benefit lawsuit. Castaneda will join Gayer at the Onex annu-al shareholders’ meeting, May 8, in Toronto.

Midwest Council actions – April 10

MW08-003• - New MW Policy Subsection VIII.G. - Shareholders meetings. The motion passed.M08-028• - Motion on SPEEA Council position at Boeing Shareholder meeting. The total of the MW and NW votes will be announced at the next regular Council meeting.

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At the Spirit AeroSystems annual shareholder meeting (l – r): Donna Castaneda, Terri Sullard, CEO Jeff Turner, Pat Clough and Mark Gayer. Below, at the Boeing meeting, Castaneda, Sheree Kennedy and Ruth Mullhatten.

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Boeing issues layoff notices to 3 in IDS

SEATTLE - On April 18, Boeing issued 60-day notices of lay-off (effective June 20) to three

SPEEA-represented employees in Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). The two in the Puget Sound are job code 6K8C-6D9 (systems engineering mea-surement & control). The one in Utah is 6L9B-64C (test instrumentation). Nine of the 11 who received layoff notices in March are still on the list to be laid off. See the April 4 SPEEA News for affected job codes.SPEEA will continue to monitor the layoff activity should more surpluses be announced.

SPEEA SPEEA ‘Viewpoint’ in Aviation Week‘Viewpoint’ in Aviation Week At the request of editors at Aviation Week & Space Technology, SPEEA Executive Director Ray Goforth wrote the “Viewpoint” article for a recent edition of the magazine.

The magazine granted permission to SPEEA to copy and distribute the article as it appeared in the April 21 issue. The article is also available at www.speea.org

Outsourcing’s Hidden CostsBy Ray GoforthSPEEA Executive Director

A conve rg ence o f d e m o g r a p h i c changes and short-

term corporate policies is creating a crisis that threatens the very founda-

tion of the U.S. aerospace industry.The average age of an aerospace engineer at the Boeing Co. is 46. Technical work-ers are an average of 50. Although U.S. colleges turn out engineering and science degrees at double the pace of 40 years ago, aerospace has lost its luster as a career path. The Baby Boom generation of engineers, technical workers and machinists who design, build and effectively manage the production of aerospace products is fast approaching retirement. Moreover, while one demographic group is planning to rapidly exit the aerospace workforce, the industry is ignoring the need to groom the next generation. Instead, U.S. corporations remain fixated on short-term cost-cutting and cost-shifting strategies to boost the prices of company stocks.One of the primary corporate strategies to paper over this crisis is to cut the domestic workforce and outsource projects to lower cost workers overseas - a strategy predicated upon a fundamental misunderstanding of the aerospace workforce. The idea that com-plex aerospace products can be outsourced as if they were cheap consumer electronics is profoundly flawed. For example, Boeing developed its business model for the 787 Dreamliner upon the idea that aerospace workers are easily replicated. The assump-tion was that “an engineer is an engineer” and that transferred jobs can be leveraged to gain foreign sales. Final assembly was left for the gutted domestic workforce.Although it may make sense to outsource common redundant pieces of mature prod-ucts, cost savings from outsourcing dur-ing the design and initial manufacturing of complex aerospace products is illuso-ry. Boeing discovered this when it had to perform costly rework on thousands of components outsourced for the 787. One particularly devastating example was the 787 center wingbox. Companies obscure the true costs of outsourcing disasters by burying them in overhead. Boeing and other companies are now discovering what the Society of Professional Engineering

Employees in Aerospace warned about in 2002: Complex, technical and manufactur-ing jobs cannot be outsourced. Aerospace is not built on discrete tasks of individu-al engineers, technicians and machinists. Rather, it is the integration of complex tasks evolved from decades of experience working on similar projects. This value-added syner-gistic workforce cannot be purchased in the world market place by cobbling together a network of global suppliers.Boeing’s answer to its disastrous 787 out-sourcing model is to dip into its experi-enced workforce, and scatter its members around the world to fix the problems at global “partners.” For today’s problems, it may work. But, without a new generation of aerospace workers training at their side, the company, and our industry, will not be able to solve the next problems. This doesn’t mean there aren’t extremely talented younger workers in the aerospace industry. Of course there are. However, there are not nearly enough of them, and even they are being deprived of the tribal skills-transfer that comes from working projects from development to final roll-out. The outsourcing of the intermediate production steps is robbing the workforce of the opportunity to engage in the inter-generational skills-transfer that is vital to keeping the American aerospace industry innovative and competitive.The remedy to this crisis has three com-ponents:

The U.S. aerospace industry must rec-• ognize that the design, engineering and manufacturing of highly technical aero-space projects cannot be outsourced.To make the industry more attractive to • young workers, companies must provide ongoing training and career develop-ment. Aerospace workers are not fun-gible goods that can be discarded and replaced at will.The workers who design and build the • products that carry our families and ensure our national security need com-pensation and benefits that recognize the importance of their work.

Recognizing the error of outsourcing, and taking steps to preserve aerospace as a career of choice, will ensure domestic com-panies a robust workforce composed of the best and the brightest well into the future.

Strength in numbers Strength in numbers

Support the Employee Community Fund

Congratulations to the Employee Community Fund (ECF) at The Boeing Company in Puget

Sound, which recently reached the $500 million mark in donations. That’s been building since starting in 1951 – when the average Boeing paycheck was $50. Throughout the years, SPEEA Council Reps, Area Reps and members stepped up to promote the benefits of the fund. May is ECF awareness month. To start giving (or change your pledge amount), log on to my.boeing.com, click on TotalAccess, select My Community Giving and make the choice to help others. For more infor-mation, see the website at http://com-munity.web.boeing.com/nwregion/ei_ecf.cfm.

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Negotiations 2008

Week of May 5, 2008Tuesday, May 6 5:00 p.m. Leadership Development & TrainingWednesday, May 7 5:00 p.m. Health & WellnessThursday, May 8 4:30 p.m. Council Meeting

Week of May 12, 2008Monday, May 12 4:00 p.m. New Hire CommitteeMonday, May 12 5:00 p.m. SPEEA Legislative & Public AffairsThursday, May 15 4:00 p.m. Executive Board

Week of May 19, 2008Tuesday, May 20 5:00 p.m. Organizational PlanningWednesday, May 21 5:00 p.m. SPEEA Governing DocumentsThursday, May 22 5:00 p.m. Labor Delegates

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Week of May 5, 2008y ,5:00 p m Leadership Development & TrainingTuesday May 6

NORTHWEST MEETINGS (ALL TIMES PDT )

Week of May 5, 2008Tuesday, May 6 4:30 p.m. MW Membership Activities CommitteeThursday, May 8 4:00 p.m. Council Meeting

Week of May 12, 2008Thursday, May 15 4:30 p.m. MW Leadership Development & Training

Week of May 19, 2008 No meetings scheduled

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‘Top Your Potato’in honor of past SPEEA president

The students who will benefit from the scholarship probably never knew Dan Hartley, a former

SPEEA president. But there’s a good chance they wouldn’t be studying at Aviation High School without his support.Every spring, the school hosts a ‘Top Your Potato’ fund-raising dinner for a scholarship in Hartley’s name. This year’s dinner will be 5 p.m., Friday, May 16, at the International Association of Machinists (IAM) District 751 Hall in Seattle (near Boeing Field). Hartley was an active supporter of the con-cept of a high school with a curriculum geared toward students interested in pursu-ing careers in aerospace. Hartley passed away March 17, 2004, at the age of 70. The school opened that fall with a class of 100 freshmen.Hartley, a SPEEA member since 1962, served two terms as SPEEA president in the 1990s. He remained active in SPEEA after leaving office – serving for years on the Legislative and Public Affairs (L&PA) committees. “Dan wanted the best for SPEEA and Boeing and the future generations and fought tirelessly for that,” said Joel Funfar, SPEEA Council secretary and chair of the SPEEA L&PA committee. When Hartley passed away, his family asked for memorial contributions to be made to Aviation High School, the Museum of Flight and AOPA Air Safety Foundation. “That’s the kind of person he was – a car-ing and passionate advocate for the past, the present and the future,” Funfar said.

Unions team up for Komen ‘Race for the Cure’

SEATTLE – SPEEA members will join the “Unions United Against Breast Cancer” team in the 2008 “Race for

the Cure,” Saturday, June 21, at Qwest Field in Seattle.Other unions on the team include International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 17 and the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 286. The event is organized by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Puget Sound.Members, family and friends will proud-ly show their solidarity in the Co-Ed/Family 5K Walk along with the other six Komen events.Join our team by contacting Sheila Martinez at sheilam@speea.org by May 28. Team registration is $30 (race number, team T-shirt and race T-shirt will be provided). For more about the race and to donate to the Unions United team fund, go to: http://www.pugetsoundraceforthecure.org/. You can also go to the Komen Puget Sound affiliate site: http://www.komen-pugetsound.org/.

SPEEA Council elects treasurer in June

The SPEEA Council will vote to fill the treasurer vacancy June 6. Jimmie Mathis resigned the posi-

tion after his election to SPEEA treasurer serving on the Executive Board.“The treasurer is the most active and involved of all elected positions,” said Mathis. “It’s important for people who run for this office to be aware of the time commitment and the skills needed.”

Responsibilities include:Reviewing monthly council ledger • and expenditure reportsVerifying the authorizations against • the council budgetCoordinating with committees on • expenditures and budget requirementsProviding periodic briefings to the • Council Developing and presenting Council • expenditures vs. budget at Council meetingsWorking with the SPEEA treasurer • and comptroller to resolve questionsPerforming the duties of the SPEEA • Council chair and/or secretary when they are not available

This position is open to Council Reps only. Nominations will be made at the Council meeting.

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