Boeing to lay off nearly 400 more employees in WA
SEATTLE - Boeing said in a notice filed with Washington’s Employment Security Department on Monday that it planned to lay off 396 more workers in the state.
The latest notice said the impacted workers were located in Bremerton, Auburn, Everett, JBLM, Kent, Puyallup, Renton, Seattle, and Tukwila. Their last day with the company was expected to be Feb. 21, 2025.
In November, Boeing said it had so far laid off 2,199 workers in the state, among job cuts that will eventually total about 17,000 across the company.
The aerospace giant announced in October that it planned to cut about 10% of its workforce in the coming months as it struggles to recover from financial and regulatory troubles as well as a strike by its machinists that lasted nearly two months.
The planned cuts include workers at Boeing facilities across the country, from Washington to Missouri to Arizona to South Carolina. They also appeared to impact workers in all three of Boeing’s divisions: commercial airplanes, defense and global services.
Before the layoff notices, Boeing had 66,000 workers in Washington.
Boeing’s unionized machinists were on strike for nearly two months before returning to work. The strike strained Boeing’s finances. But CEO Kelly Ortberg said on an October call with analysts that it did not cause the layoffs, which he described as a result of overstaffing.
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Boeing, based in Arlington, Virginia, has been in financial trouble since two crashes of its 737 MAX jetliner killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019. The company’s fortunes and reputation took a further hit when a panel blew off the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane in January.
Production rates slowed to a crawl, and the Federal Aviation Administration capped production of the 737 MAX at 38 planes per month, a threshold Boeing had yet to reach when the machinists’ strike halted assembly lines.
Boeing to lay off more than 2,000 WA workers
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Boeing is set to lay off 2,199 workers in the state of Washington just days before Christmas, and workers in other states will be impacted, as well.
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