SPEEA represents 25,000 employees at The Boeing Company, Spirit AeroSystems, BAE Systems and Triumph Composite Systems. Members work in Washington, Kansas, Oregon, Utah, Texas and California.  The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001, is a professional aerospace labor union representing engineers, technical workers, pilots and other professionals in the aerospace industry.  Formed in 1946, SPEEA is an affiliated local union of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE).

We are very pleased to welcome SPEEA to the UnionWare family of clients.  We are excited to be working with on this exciting implementation of UnionWare.

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We're not shy about sharing how we're doing. In fact, we think you should know if the provider of your mission critical systems is flying straight and level, or just getting by on fumes.

Well, we're doing just fine actually. We've been fortunate to withstand the economic dip over the past few years. In fact, we're busier than ever. When the North American economy started to slip we decided to focus on our existing clients rather than just trying to get new ones. "Hell" we thought, "there may not be any new ones anyway", given the economic crisis. This approach paid off for us as 2010 was our best year ever. Don't get the wrong idea though, it's not Silicon Valley up here in Winnipeg and we aren't all driving Ferraris. 

September 26-28, Winnipeg, Canada – This year we will be running a series of breakout sessions to discuss the future direction of our existing modules, as well as concepts for new modules. We've had a lot of demand for this type of feedback/brainstorming format and with two full days for Summit this year we think it will work well. For more information on Summit 2011, or to register, please click here.

SEIU West is the result of a merger of three of Saskatchewan's SEIU locals. As part of the merger there was a need to connect three regional offices and start a Resource Center. After hearing that the SEIU Resource Center in Pasadena was using UnionWare to successfully handle a large volume of calls each day they gave us a call. Now live with UnionWare, Don Kitchen at SEIU West says, "The transition to UnionWare was like going from stone tools to a rocket ship!" For the full Q&A with Don, and Q&A's with all of our clients click here.

Early February, SEIU Local 925 went live with a new addition to their UnionWare package... the Call Management Module! Previously they had been handling all of their calls using a customized version of the Case Module. The Call Management Module evolved out of a number of our clients setting up Resource Centers to handle all of their incoming calls. We would be happy to discuss some of the benefits of Resource Centers and the steps involved in setting them up. We can even connect you with unions that have successfully implemented resource centers using UnionWare.

We are proud to welcome CUPE Local 79 as the latest UnionWare Enterprise client. Local 79 represents about 18,000 inside workers at the City of Toronto, as well as, workers at Bridgepoint Hospital and Toronto Community Housing Corp. Very soon all City of Toronto workers (including TCEU Local 416 with 8,000 members - also a UnionWare client) will be tracked in UnionWare. We will be implementing the Membership, Cases and Events modules in the coming year, allowing Local 79 to once again have a single reliable database for all three types of information.

You could use a little more training, but you don't need a full day and a generic session just won't do. Why not register your team for a U Driven Training session? 

As exciting as we try to make our version release notes, it really is a very dry read. Probably not too exciting at all, but what is exciting are the changes that are included in every new version of UnionWare. We don't want you to miss out on all of the new things we're doing for you! Now, when you visit the Versions page on our UnionCare Support Portal, you will have the ability to see when we are doing our next walk through of our newest version. You will be able to join an online meeting and watch as Murray takes you through all of the newest features! Who needs release notes when you can have Murray?! If you don't see a walk through scheduled when you visit this area, be sure to check back soon.