Union Negotiations
2025
GE Aerospace

At GE Aerospace,

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As a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft, our substantial investment in research and development keeps us looking ahead.

Our 53,000 employees of GE Aerospace, serving customers in approximately 120 countries, come to work every day to live our purpose: We invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely.

Our confidence to deliver for today, tomorrow, and the future is due to our culture rooted in three lean foundational behaviors: respect for people, continuous improvement, and customer driven.
    Summer 2025 Negotiations

    In the summer of 2025, GE Aerospace will begin negotiations with the IUE-CWA and their affiliates, UAW, and IAM for labor contracts representing employees at several of our U.S. facilities, including Lynn, MA; Madisonville, KY; Arkansas City, KS; Niskayuna, NY; Evendale, OH; and Erlanger, KY.

    In the coming weeks, this site will include information to keep you informed on the process. To receive notifications when new updates or content are posted, please sign up below.

    We have a longstanding history of partnering productively with our unions. This includes negotiating 16 national contracts and many local agreements since 1969. We remain committed to bargaining in good faith with the unions representing 3,200 of our U.S. employees.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Our goal is to reach fair, mutually beneficial labor agreements that position our people, facilities, and communities for long-term growth and success.

    The IUE-CWA and affiliates represent certain precision manufacturing, industrial skilled trades and technical operations at our Lynn, MA, Arkansas City, KS, Madisonville, KY and Niskayuna, NY locations. 

    The UAW represents several units including testing and assembly personnel at our Evendale, OH and Erlanger, KY locations.

    The IAM represents employees across several shops and businesses at our Evendale, OH location, including machinists, other trades, facilities personnel and other critical specialty roles such as Fire Inspectors and Powerhouse operators.

    Negotiations with our IUE-CWA-represented colleagues at Lynn, MA; Arkansas City, KS; Madisonville, KY; and Niskayuna, NY, begin June 2, 2025.

    Negotiations with the UAW and the IAM, representing our colleagues in Evendale, OH, and Erlanger, KY will begin July 29, 2025.

    The national contract for our IUE-CWA-represented employees expires on June 22, 2025.

    The UAW and IAM contracts expire on August 17, 2025.

    GE Aerospace last negotiated with all three unions in 2023. The IUE-CWA and their affiliates ratified a two-year contract extension of their 2019-2023 agreement in April 2023, and UAW and IAM ratified new 26-month agreements in June 2023.

    Now that GE Aerospace is an independent company, it will conduct its own labor negotiations with the unions that represent its employees. The negotiations do not cover any GE Vernova employees. We are committed to bargaining in good faith, as we have for the last five decades, and to reaching agreements that support both our employees and our business.

    The 2025 negotiations involve several unions including the IUE-CWA and their affiliates, the UAW and the IAM, which collectively represent 3,200 GE Aerospace employees in the U.S. In total there are approximately 3,700 GE Aerospace unionized employees in the U.S.