Layoff notices go out to 160 at Bombardier in Wichita

[UpInArms]

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/7932545.htm

Bombardier Aerospace has issued 60-day layoff notices to 160 Wichita employees.

The job losses are part of a plan announced in October to cut 350 positions at Bombardier's Wichita plant this year as the company realigns business jet production.

The remainder of the reductions will occur over the next eight to 11 months, Bombardier spokesman Dave Franson said.

"It's going to be an incremental process," Franson said.

Bombardier is shifting assembly of the Challenger 300 business jet from Wichita to a plant in Dorval, Quebec, near Montreal. The layoffs are related to that move, Franson said.

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I'm still waiting for those 3.8 million jobs - when do you think we'll see the layoff notices stop and the hiring signs put out?

[MarianJack]

1. Welcome...

...to the jobless recovery.

As for the 3.8 million jobs, maybe it;s like Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam war. "Elect me and you'll see!"

[BR_Parkway]

2. A nation of hamburger flippers

is what we are becoming, but I can't help but wonder - after the jobs are all exported, how do we afford the burgers?

Bombardier is shifting assembly of the Challenger 300 business jet from Wichita to a plant in Dorval, Quebec, near Montreal.

[SidDithers]

7. Not really exporting the jobs, more like bringing them home...

Bombardier is a Canadian corporation.

Sid

[Atlant]

3. Is this what used to be Beech (Raytheon)? (NT)

[UpInArms]

4. it was Lear

http://www.cjonline.com/stories/121803/opi_eddy.shtml

We've got the Air Capital of the World in Wichita, where the nation's top general aviation companies build airplanes -- Cessna, Raytheon (formerly Beech) and Learjet (now Bombardier) -- and where Boeing workers help build the world's best commercial airplanes, ones that carry a good portion of all commercial air passengers.

[Robb]

5. Bombardier recreation products

...used to own Ski-Doo (snowmobiles) and snowcats, Sea-Doo (watercraft), Evinrude/Johnson outboard motors, stuff like that. I remember reading they were selling that part off, but of course I don't remember if it went through.

[UpInArms]

6. the sale went through

and Bombardier is headquarted in Canada

http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2003/11/03/daily3.html

Bombardier's reorganization included the $879 million sale in August of its recreational products division that designed and built Ski-Doo snowmobiles, Evinrude outboard motors and Bombardier all-terrain vehicles, among others products. The division was Bombardier's original business.

The military aviation services unit employs about 950 in Quebec and West Virginia and provides maintenance, repair, overhaul and other technical services for military aircraft. During Bombardier's 2003 fiscal year, the unit generated roughly $130 million in revenue.

[Atlant]

8. Thanks. (NT)

[American Renaissance]

9. Mirabel

Actually, I believe they are eventually moving this to Mirabel.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. I don't know how my brother stands it

His first job was at Boeing in Wichita in 1977. He's moved between Boeing, LearJet and Cessna ever since then. The only place he hasn't worked is Raytheon/Beech. He'll get laid off and move to a different plant, then get laid off again and move to still another one. The aircraft industry is all he knows. He's at Cessna now and is hanging on by a thread. We try to encourage him to go to college and get a degree so he can pursue other career options, but he's 46 and is kind of set in his ways. All he wants to do is provide for his family. I'm sure there are many, many more like him in Wichita and at other aircraft plants.

Yes, Wichita is the "Air Capital of the World." I just wonder how long it can retain that appellation at this rate. I'm very sad for my former home in the wake of all this employment difficulty.

[jburton]

11. Wichita also screwed by mad cow

Aerospace & Beef are such huge parts of the economy, and both are in terrible condition.

[dArKeR]

12. 30 to 40 Wichita families each week are losing their homes 9/03

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/7211303.htm

[Atlant]

14. Headline: "Red State hit by foreclosure blues; still voting GOP in '04"

(NT)

[dArKeR]

13. Residential foreclosures in 2003 surpass 2002

Residential foreclosures in the Wichita area in 2003 surpassed foreclosures in 2002, according to a report by Security Title of Wichita. In 2003 there were 1,632 foreclosures, compared to 1,409 in 2002

http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2004/02/09/daily5.html