2,000 Boeing defense jobs leaving Puget Sound region

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/09/29/3405860/2000-boeing-defense-jobs-moving.html?sp=/99/261/1470/



Boeing will move about 2,000 defense-related jobs from the Puget Sound region. The shift will impact mainly engineers for defense-related planes, including the F-22 Raptor, P-8 anti-submarine jet and Airborne Warning and Control System jet, pictured here in 1998.

2,000 Boeing defense jobs leaving Puget Sound region
By Dominic Gates
The Seattle Times
September 29, 2014

Boeing over the next three years will move significant defense work out of the Puget Sound region, affecting the jobs of about 2,000 employees, the company announced Monday.

Employees in Kent and Seattle, who will be most affected, will get details at an all-hands meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning.

One person familiar with the plans said 2,000 jobs mostly in engineering will be affected through a combination of relocations, transfers, attrition and layoffs.

Boeing currently employs a total of about 5,200 people in defense work in this region.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. So that's about 1/3 in that region, and defense is 22% - 27% of ALL our $$$$$

Where's it going ?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I am very confused about this move.

My ex worked for Boeing from 1965 till he retired, so I am familiar with the company.

Never understood why Oklahoma City was such an attraction.
Or why Boeing is dead set on leaving Puget Sound, as evidenced by this statement in the article:
"“There’s an active effort on the part of the company to relocate jobs out of the Puget Sound region,”

That comment was followed by this one..".But he said Boeing can’t move the tanker and P-8 work or future military aircraft contracts that are based on commercial jet derivatives"

From the article, it seems Boeing is moving just engineering jobs, not manufacturing jobs.

[mountain grammy]

3. Just my personal opinion: I think the Seattle, Wa. area is too 'progressive' for Boeing

that $15 minimum wage vote put a scare into their tiny, greedy hearts, because you can't expect a CEO making millions to live on less.

[exboyfil]

4. I think they are trying to bust up

the engineering union. It is one of the few companies with an engineering union. My daughter was very interested in Boeing (she is currently a mechanical engineering student at Iowa State). The Washington location was very attractive for her. She will definitely stay in Iowa over relocating to St. Louis or Oklahoma.

I have to wonder long term if this is going to impact Boeing's ability to recruit engineering talent. Lots of firms in the midwest that do not have the boom and bust cycle of the defense industry. It is easy to get someone from the midwest to relocate to Washington. A lot harder to pull off the reverse.


Hopefully we will get someone sane in Washington, D.C. that will stop the H1-B Visa crap. Otherwise many of their new hires will not be U.S. citizens.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. TPP from top to bottom . n/t