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CWA Pledges $25,000 Per Week to Aid Boeing Strikers
Communications Workers Pledge $25,000 Per Week
To Aid Striking Engineers, Technical Employees at Boeing
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Communications Workers of America announced it is making weekly contributions of $25,000 to assist striking Boeing engineers and technical employees who are represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace.
"Boeing has taken the harsh step of cutting off health coverage for these employees and their families to try to starve them back to work, and is engaging in threats and scare tactics to try to intimidate them - but their resolve is only growing stronger in the face of this bullying," said CWA President Morton Bahr.
"The 630,000 members of CWA stand in total support of the strikers in their struggle for respect and fair treatment from this aerospace giant," he declared. Bahr also is an AFL-CIO vice president and chair of the federation's Department for Professional Employees.
The 19,000 engineers and technical workers walked out February 9 after mediated talks failed to resolve salary and health care coverage issues. The employees are seeking pay increases and bonuses similar to those Boeing negotiated last year with 44,000 production workers represented by the Machinists union.
The SPEEA has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Boeing for improperly declaring negotiations at "impasse" and threatening to hire replacement workers. SPEEA is affiliated with the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO.
CWA represents employees in telecommunications, information technology, print, broadcast and Internet media, health care, and government service.
To Aid Striking Engineers, Technical Employees at Boeing
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Communications Workers of America announced it is making weekly contributions of $25,000 to assist striking Boeing engineers and technical employees who are represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace.
"Boeing has taken the harsh step of cutting off health coverage for these employees and their families to try to starve them back to work, and is engaging in threats and scare tactics to try to intimidate them - but their resolve is only growing stronger in the face of this bullying," said CWA President Morton Bahr.
"The 630,000 members of CWA stand in total support of the strikers in their struggle for respect and fair treatment from this aerospace giant," he declared. Bahr also is an AFL-CIO vice president and chair of the federation's Department for Professional Employees.
The 19,000 engineers and technical workers walked out February 9 after mediated talks failed to resolve salary and health care coverage issues. The employees are seeking pay increases and bonuses similar to those Boeing negotiated last year with 44,000 production workers represented by the Machinists union.
The SPEEA has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Boeing for improperly declaring negotiations at "impasse" and threatening to hire replacement workers. SPEEA is affiliated with the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO.
CWA represents employees in telecommunications, information technology, print, broadcast and Internet media, health care, and government service.