Union wins NLRB fight with Boeing, company must hand over pay, productivity data
Boeing has been ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to supply wage rate and productivity data to the company’s engineering union.
The ruling, which was made public by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) on Monday, is the result of filings made during contract talks in 2012.
While the ruling won’t impact the current contract, it could effect future negotiations and possibly could supply information the union could use in its age discrimination complaint against Boeing, filed July 23.
Those filings were with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Washington State Human Rights Commission.
“They’re hiding wage and productivity rates, and we have a charge against them for age discrimination,” said SPEEA spokesman Bill Dugovich. “This is all part of a pattern by the Boeing company of hiding information.”
A Boeing spokesman said the company will appeal, in this statement: "Throughout negotiations with SPEEA, Boeing followed all applicable labor laws. We disagree with this ruling and plan to appeal the decision.“
In the NLRB ruling, by Administrative Law Judge Dickie Montemayor, he wrote that Boeing clearly didn’t follow the requirements of the National Labor Relations Act.
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