OAN Staff James Meyers
8:40 AM – Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Aerospace giant Boeing will lay off over 2,000 workers that are based in Washington and Oregon as part of a large-scale cost-cutting drive that will cut 17,000 employees, which equals 10% of its workforce.
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Boeing also notified 220 employees last week who assemble the 787 Dreamliner aircraft at a Charleston, South Carolina, facility that they would be laid off, according to WCBD-TV.
Additionally, Boeing said in a notice filed with the Employment Security Department in Washington that it has already cut 2,199 workers in the state.
Over 2,500 workers in Washington, Oregon, Missouri, and South Carolina are expected to be impacted by Boeing’s decision to cut 17,000 jobs globally.
Boeing announced in October that it planned to cut close to 10% of its workforce in the coming months as it struggles to recover from financial problems as well as a strike by its machinists that lasted almost two months.
Furthermore, the planned cuts include workers at Boeing facilities across the country, including Washington, Missouri, Arizona and South Carolina, the Seattle Times reported.
The cuts will impact workers in all three of Boeing’s divisions: global services, commercial airplanes and defense.
The layoffs so far are notices that went out last week to more than 400 members of Boeing’s professional aerospace labor union, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace.
However, the workers will remain on the payroll through mid-January.
New Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said on an October call with analysts that the layoffs were the result of overstaffing.
Meanwhile, Boeing has been in financial trouble since two crashes of its 737 MAX jetliner killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
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