Seattle (AP) – Boeing has delivered layoff notifications to more than 400 members of the professional aerospace union. Financial and Regulation Trouble and 8 weeks of strike By that mechanics union.
The pink slip appeared last week on members of the Aerospace Professional Engineering Employees Association or SPEEA. Seattle Times reported. Workers will remain on salary until mid-January.
Boeing It was announced in October They had planned to cut 10% of their workforce of around 17,000 people over the next few months. CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees the company needs to “reset workforce levels to match our financial reality.”
Professional Aerospace Engineering Employees, or SPEEA employees, said the cuts had an impact on 438 members. The union’s local branch has 17,000 Boeing employees, primarily based in Washington, some in Oregon, California and Utah.
Of these 438 workers, 218 are members of Speea’s professional unit, including engineers and scientists. The rest are members of the technical unit, including analysts, planners, technicians and skilled merchants.
Eligible employees will receive career transition services and subsidized healthcare benefits for up to three months. Workers will also be resigned. Usually, payments are made for about one week per year of service.
Boeing’s organized mechanics began returning to work earlier this month after the strike.
The strike has strained Boeing’s finances. However, Autoberg said in an October call with analysts that it didn’t cause a layoff.
Based in Arlington, Virginia, Boeing has financial and regulatory issues. The panel was blown away from the fuselage An Alaska Airlines plane in January. Production rates slowed to the crawl, with the Federal Aviation Administration limiting its biggest production of the 737 with 38 aircraft a month, but Boeing has yet to reach it.
