Posted on 01/20/2011 11:06:02 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Dwindling domestic demand for C-17 cargo planes will force Boeing Co. to slash 1,100 jobs at its U.S. plants, most of them in Long Beach where the aerospace giant has cut 13,000 jobs since the 1990s, the company said Thursday. The 900 jobs in Long Beach and 200 jobs at plants in Mesa, Ariz., Macon, Ga., and St. Louis will be cut by the end of next year. The cuts include accountants, midlevel management, engineering, research and assembly line workers. Affected workers will receive 60-day notices beginning Friday, with layoffs staggered monthly through 2012. Boeing said it will assist affected workers in trying to land positions elsewhere in the company.
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What can a company do when no one will buy your product? New C-17s must be a pretty small market.
Announced the day after You-Know-Who gave a state dinner for Hu as thanks for buying a bunch of our stuff, including Boeing planes.
I thought there was a big order from India. They are supposedly buying 10 of them.
I was going to buy one but my landlord won’t let me park it on the property.
Now if the gubmint would just cut back on it’s workers, and cut the fat salaries of those who remain; even cut out complete programs which are redundant or obsolete, we could make some headway!
These are valuable workers. Sure hope they can be used on other projects.
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