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.
That notice came in the midst of what would end up being a seven-week strike with 33,000 machinists union members walking picket lines. Those union members ratified a new deal the first week of November and are not back on the job. Before they went back to work, their union president said layoffs right now would be "very short-sided." Jon Holden said he hoped the company would reconsider since it is facing a backlog of almost 5,500 airplanes.“I’m happy about that, but at the same time, people are getting laid off. That is really stressful for them for their family,” said Rony.
, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, or SPEEA. Those employees, 218 in the engineering unit and 220 in tech, which includes analysts, technicians and planners will remain on the payroll through mid-January.