Boeing will lay off more than 200 South Carolina-based employees, cutting 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, as part of a major cost-cutting initiative.
The aerospace giant last week notified layoffs to 220 employees who assemble 787 Dreamliner aircraft at its Charleston-based facility. According to WCBD-TV.
On Monday, Boeing announced in a notice filed with the Washington Department of Employment Security that it has laid off 2,199 workers in the state.
Boeing, whose stock has fallen more than 42% since the beginning of the year, plans to cut about 10% of its workforce in the coming months as it struggles to recover from financial and regulatory issues and strikes. It was announced in October. Work by mechanics lasted almost two months.
The planned cuts include employees at Boeing facilities across the country, including Washington, Missouri, Arizona and South Carolina, the Seattle Times reported.
It also appears to affect employees in all three of Boeing's commercial aviation, defense and global services divisions.
Before receiving layoff notices last week, Boeing had 66,000 employees in Washington.
The job cuts so far include a notice sent last week to more than 400 members of Boeing's aerospace professional union, the Aerospace Engineers Association.
Employees will be paid until mid-January.
Boeing's unionized machinists began returning to work earlier this month after a strike.
Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, said on a conference call with analysts in October that the layoffs were the result of overstaffing.
Arlington, Virginia-based Boeing has been in trouble since two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people.
The company's fortunes and reputation took another hit in January when panels were blown off the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane.
Production rates have fallen to abysmal levels, and the Federal Aviation Administration has limited production of the 737 MAX to 38 planes per month, a standard that Boeing had not yet reached when the machinists' strike shut down assembly lines. Ta.
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