Boeing has issued layoffs in three more states, beginning Jan. 17, as well as a second round of job cuts in Washington starting in February.
Boeing sites in Alabama and Florida, as well as its headquarters in Virginia, have announced job cuts totaling 367 employees, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act posts.
Boeing’s second round of layoffs in Washington will cut 396 employees, adding to the 2,199 initially announced in November. As of Dec. 9, Washington has the largest number of layoffs at 2,595 workers.
This adds to layoffs in Oregon, Colorado, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Arizona, totaling 4,272 pending job cuts across 10 states.
The job cuts are part of Boeing’s plans to reduce its workforce by 10%, roughly 17,000 employees, across locations worldwide as the troubled aircraft titan tries to retain cash after a nearly two-month workers' strike and an $8 billion net loss throughout the year.
Boeing layoffs across US sites as of Dec. 9
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace reported Friday that Boeing issued layoff notices last week to 222 union members in Washington. The job cuts add to 438 issued for union positions last month.
Boeing has also spent billions of dollars to salvage its reputation and correct its safety and manufacturing processes after the Alaska Airlines doorplug blowout that occurred in January.
Although a strike at the aircraft maker ended on Nov. 5 and employees returned to work the following day in Washington and Oregon, Boeing has not yet resumed producing 737 MAX airplanes, Reuters reported on Dec. 5.
Federal Aviation Administration head Mike Whitaker told Reuters that the aircraft maker is planning to slowly restart production later in December.
“The thing that I was most struck by was we're four weeks post-strike and they're still not producing airplanes, because they're focused on their workforce, the training, making sure they have the supply chain sorted out,” Whitaker told Reuters.
Boeing could bleed more cash in 2025. On Thursday, a federal court judge rejected the company’s guilty plea deal with the Department of Justice regarding fatal 737 Max crashes, sending the two parties to negotiate again.
The rejected agreement would have allowed Boeing to avoid criminal charges related to two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. The proposed deal included an additional $243.6 million fine, totaling $487.2 million in criminal penalty fines.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include information about layoffs in Washington as of Dec. 9.
