Reports have suggested Boeing could bring back up to 800 retirees. The hiring follows the company, America's largest exporter of manufactured products, cutting more than 20,000 jobs since 2012, many in the Puget Sound region of Washington. "This is all the proof you need that they cut too ...
Ironically, fierce competition and declining orders for new aircraft forced Boeing and Airbus to lay off workers in 2017. Boeing slashed its workforce by 8 percent in 2016. Airbus laid off 1,200 employees. Boeing had 82,500 commercial-unit jobs in 2016. Most are in Washington state. In 2016...
“CEO Ortberg has an opportunity to do things differently instead of the same old tired labor relations threats used to intimidate and crush anyone that stands up to them,” he said in a statement. “Ultimately, it will be our membership that determines whether any negotiated contract offer is...
(IW 1000/29) plans to lay off hundreds of engineers in Washington state and other locations -- and may eliminate more jobs later this year as the planemaker contends with slowing aircraft sales. The latest workforce reduction, which should take effect June 23, follows a separate exodus of ...
In what it calls the largest peacetime worker mobilization in history, Amazon hired more than 400,000 workers worldwide. Of that number, more than 16,500 new jobs were created in Washington state. In total, Amazon now employs 80,000 people in Washington, an increase of 25% compared to 201...
Boeingissued lay off notices to 692 workers in Missouri, home to the company’s Defense,Space& Security division, according to a federally-required filing posted on Wednesday, as part of the debt-heavy U.S. planemaker’s plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its global workforce. ...
Boeing furloughed thousands of salaried employees on a rolling basisafter the strikeby 33,000 union machinists began in September and halted production of its best-selling 737 MAX. But the planemaker later canceled the unpaid leave after announcing plans to cut 17,000 jobs. ...
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About 60% of the 2.21 million Americans who work in the aerospace industry have jobs directly linked to the supply chain, according to the U.S. industry group Aerospace Industries Association. Those suppliers' decisions to reduce staffing could create a vicious cycle, as...
Looks at the boom in information technology (IT)-related jobs in the state of Washington in the 1990s. Boeing and Microsoft as key drivers in this job growth; Areas in the state that are experiencing tremendous IT job growth.BatteyJim