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Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by coredog64 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:08AM (#14145373)
False. As an engineer you have the option of joining SPEEA, but it is not a requirement.

Joining the union offers some benefits, and some people do so for personal/political reasons.

One useful benefit was publication on anonymous salary information around raise time. You see exactly where you stand without violating the privacy of your peers.

Source: I'm a former Boeing employee (DS9 - Real-time systems simulation engineer)

Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by civilian on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:55AM (#14145765)
Right. But if you don't join, you still have to pay union dues, right? That requirement kind of blurs things in my mind.