02:18 PM EDT, 04/23/2024 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with details throughout)

Boeing ( BA ) managers retaliated against two employees who insisted the company reevaluate prior engineering work on the 777 and 787 airplanes to account for a new Federal Aviation Administration advisory, the SPEEA union said in a statement Tuesday.

The two engineers were members of the SPEEA and had been designated as representatives of the FAA, according to the statement.

The employees had flagged to Boeing ( BA ) managers that a set of assumptions used to analyze Boeing's ( BA ) 777 and 787 on-board computer networks did not comply with new guidelines set by the FAA and recommended they be changed but received push back from their supervisors who cited cost and production delays as the reason for not doing so, SPEEA said.

Even though Boeing ( BA ) re-did the required analysis nearly six months later on the continued insistence of the two engineers, the management allegedly retaliated against both employees by giving them negative evaluations in their subsequent performance reviews, the statement said.

The union said it had filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board to gain access to a report Boeing ( BA ) filed with the FAA about the incident.

"The report is needed for the union to successfully appeal actions taken against one of the affected workers; the other has quit Boeing ( BA ) over the way he was treated," the SPEAA said.

Boeing ( BA ) did not immediately respond to a request for comment from MT Newswires.

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