Boeing to cut 225 jobs at its Kansas defense plant

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

06.14.11, 05:58 PM EDT

WICHITA, Kan. --

Boeing Co. will cut 225 jobs at its Wichita defense plant through the end of this year, blaming the end of some programs and adjustments in aircraft maintenance cycles for the reductions, the company announced Tuesday.

The reductions at Boeing Defense, Space & Security's Maintenance, Modifications and Upgrades facility will be accomplished through layoffs, normal attrition and placements elsewhere within the company, according to a Boeing statement. The first 60-day layoff notices will be sent out to about 60 employees Friday.

"This reduction of positions is necessary to help our business reduce cost and improve productivity," MM&U general manager Mark Bass said in a news release. "Our goal is to remain affordable and competitive, and ensure future growth in the airplane modification business in Wichita."

The announcement is a blow to a community that had hoped the number of jobs at the facility would grow after Boeing won a contract to build 179 refueling tankers under a contract worth at least $35 billion. The modification work on the planes is expected to be done at Boeing's Wichita plant.


Read more: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/06/14/general-industrials-ks-boeing-layoffs_8516500.html

[SoapBox]

1. ...I repeat, Mr. Boehner / GOBPer / RushThug / T.HATERbagger WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

...that jobs bill you promised?

Looks like you were LYING!

[Arctic Dave]

2. Those aren't jobs lost, those are parasites.

If you work for the MIC you do not make anything useful to the general economy.

[PJPhreak]

3. "If you work for the MIC...

you do not make anything useful to the general economy."

That in itself may be true,But the 225 Paychecks that Wichita loses is not gonna help at all either.

Good Paying Jobs like those in the Aircraft Industry have always been hard to get and cherished by a lot of folk in the S.Central Kansas area...Now its beyond impossible and getting worse!

[Arctic Dave]

5. That's the problem with parasites, eventually they will kill the host.

Let them get "training" for another job instead of sucking the blood of everyone

[Populist_Prole]

4. Yeah it does sound like M. I. C. neocon spin. Disingenuous

If Boeing commercial aircraft were to lay off twice that many workers ( and sub out more work outside the US ) articles like this would have a much chirpier tone.

[locahungaria]

6. K & R, OhioChick.....

And I sure as hell have had about enough of THIS:


"This reduction of positions is necessary to help our business reduce cost and improve productivity," MM&U general manager Mark Bass said in a news release. "Our goal is to remain affordable and competitive, and ensure future growth in the airplane modification business in Wichita."

:mad: