United States: Boeing to pay $47m in compensation to nearly 500 California workers for refusing them the benefits of the collective agreement signed with the SPEEA union

That's what Boeing is about to give to 500 current and former workers in southern California, at the end of a 13-year procedure.
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“After a 13-year battle, 484 current and former employees of The Boeing Company are receiving [by May 21] nearly $47 million in wages and benefits they were denied because the aerospace giant refused to recognize they were covered by contracts with the SPEEA,” the union announced. This announcement came as the employees concerned (at Edwards Air Force Base and Boeing Palmdale) are just starting to measure the impact of the decision made earlier this year by an ad hoc arbitrator following a com

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