Boeing Co. will cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of the debt-heavy aircraft maker's workforce, as part of a federally requested filing posted Monday and union officials. The company announced that it plans to lay off more than 2,500 employees in Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Missouri. global workforce.
About 2,200 layoff notices were sent to workers in Washington state and another 220 in South Carolina, where Boeing makes commercial airliners. Boeing declined to comment Monday on the job cuts.
The aerospace giant told affected U.S. workers on Wednesday that they will remain on Boeing's payroll until Jan. 17 to comply with federal requirements to notify employees at least 60 days before termination. I started.
The news that Boeing would send out Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARNs) in mid-November was widely expected. The next round is scheduled for December. Boeing could also use layoffs, downsizing, selective hiring, and selling off subsidiaries.
Boeing stock rose 2.6% to close Monday at $143.87.
Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, said in October that the company does not intend to “take people off the production floor or engineering lab.” Industry watchers had been waiting for warnings about how layoffs could affect employees at the company's major manufacturing sites.
But hundreds of engineers and production workers were among those who received pink slips last week.
The Society of Professional Aerospace Engineers (SPEEA) announced that 438 Boeing union members received layoff notices last week, including 218 engineers and 220 technicians.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District Lodge 837 in St. Louis said Boeing notified 111 members, most of whom were manufacturing wing parts for the 777X.
Several non-union employees who received warnings told Reuters that who is fired appears to vary by section within Boeing.
One engineer in Boeing's defense, space and security division said all but two or three people on his team of 12 were fired, and another engineer on a team of about 20 said he was given a warning. He said he was the only engineer who They said they provide important support to production and design engineers, but are not considered to work on the production floor.
The notice comes after a weeks-long strike by more than 33,000 West Coast workers that halted production of most commercial jets as Boeing seeks to restart production of its best-selling 737 MAX. It was announced inside.
