Boeing said in a notice filed with Washington's Employment Security Department on Monday that it has so far laid off 2,199 workers in the state, among job cuts that will eventually total about 17,000 across the company., about 17,000 jobs, in the coming months as it struggles to recover from financial and regulatory troubles as well as a strike by its machinists that lasted nearly two months.
CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees the company must "reset its workforce levels to align with our financial reality." Before the layoff notices were delivered last week, Boeing had 66,000 workers in Washington. According to the ESD, those layoffs are permanent and expected to start on Dec. 20.more than 400 members of Boeing's professional aerospace labor union, and the Federal Aviation Administration capped production of the 737 MAX at 38 planes per month, a threshold Boeing had yet to reach when the machinists' strike halted assembly lines.The strike strained Boeing's finances.