Members work in Washington, Kansas, Oregon, Utah, Texas, California, and Florida.
On behalf of its members, SPEEA negotiates contracts with employers; it also provides assistance with resolving workplace and benefit issues.
SPEEA originally stood for Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association.
In an interview in February 2015, the centenarian co-founder Richard Henning, who retired in 1979 as a Boeing Executive remarked, “It’s a smart idea to have an organization speak for an individual instead of one on one.
In the old days, if you sat down to negotiate with the chief of engineering it was pretty difficult to express ideas.