EVERETT, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – Boeing is announcing layoffs amid a union strike that’s crippling production of the company’s best-selling planes.
The aircraft maker said on Friday, Oct.11, that it will lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months.
New CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff in a memo that the job cuts, which could total about 17,000 positions, will include executives, managers and employees. It comes as about 33,000 union machinists are concluding their fourth week on the picket lines.
Talks between the two sides have broken down after they each recently accused the other of bad-faith bargaining in competing complaints to the National Labor Relations Board.
The company now plans to delay the rollout of a new plane, the 777X, to 2026 instead of 2025.
It will also stop building the cargo version of its 767 jet in 2027 after finishing current orders.
Boeing had already imposed rolling temporary furloughs, but Ortberg said those will be suspended because of the impending layoffs.
The company has lost more than $25 billion since the start of 2019.
