Boeing to cut at least 1,805 Seattle-area factory and engineering jobs in 2017

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Boeing Commercial Airplanes is reducing its Puget Sound-area jet manufacturing workforce by more than 1,800 this year, according to officials with the company's local engineering and machinists unions.

The two unions said there may be even more voluntary and involuntary layoffs in 2017 because Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has not shared its workforce reduction targets with labor leaders.

Boeing is making the cuts as it grapples with a slowing global passenger jet market. More information was not available from the aircraft manufacturer.

Boeing Airplanes CEO Kevin McAllister announced plans for the cuts on Dec. 19, vowing the Chicago-based company would continue to "aggressively" cut spending in 2017.

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1. The travel ban...

Is helping the economy in so many ways.

[Jeroen]

2. Fake Trump intervention saving jobs in 1,2,3....

[Tikki]

3. Correct...fake for sure. Seattle is in a Blue State so he may say nothing at all.

Tikki

[procon]

4. Union busting.

Any bets that the work just transfers to the non-union Boeing factory in South Carolina? It was no accident that Boeing decided to build a new facility in South Carolina, one of 28 states that bar unions from requiring workers to join up as a condition of employment.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Appears you are right on.

This is a tit for tat with Boeing and the Union Organizing of the SC plant. The people at Seattle Plant knew this was a possible out come. It is all about Politics and breaking one of the strongest remaining Unions in Washington.