Boeing slashes 900 jobs in Long Beach
Long Beach, CA, United States (AHN) – Boeing is cutting hundreds of workers from its C-17 plant in Long Beach by next year.
The company is reducing the workforce by 900 positions following a decrease in orders from the government.
The plant regularly produces 14 airplanes but will only make 10 by next year.
Chicago-based Boeing has been working to increase international sales of the aircraft, an airlifter used by the U.S. Defense Department and NATO that was first manufactured 17 years ago.
Last November, the White House announced that it had reached an agreement with India to purchase 10 of the planes. There are currently 19 C-17s in operation overseas, including four in Canada and six in the United Kingdom.
“Reducing the number of C-17 s we delivery every year — and doing that with a smaller workforce — will allow us to keep the production line open beyond 2012, ” Bob Ciesla, C-17 program manager, told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
Mayor Bob Foster said in a statement to the Long Beach Post, “We will continue our efforts to support Boeing in generating additional orders to preserve the thousands of jobs that remain, and our Workforce Investment Board will commit resources to assist affected employees.”
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