the American Corporation Boeing plans to lay off 10 percent of 160 thousand employees, said the Union representative Society of professional engineers in aerospace (SPEEA). He told Reuters on Tuesday that the company informed the Union on Friday, employees should expect pink slips. In particular, such notice may obtain 15 to 20 percent of engineers and technical workers in Washington state and southern California. In SPEEA, said that about 1,300 Union members have already filed an application for exemption from the Corporation on their own. The American business journal Puget Sound reported that Boeing plans to lay off thousands of employees, nearly half of whom work in major factories in the suburbs of Seattle in Puget Sound.
In a Boeing declined to comment. In April the Executive Director of Boeing’s Dave Calhoun said that the company began to take steps to reduce headcount by about 10 percent through a combination of voluntary and forced redundancies “as needed”. According to him, Boeing will be forced to further reduce the amount of work that is most exposed to economic risk, in particular, it was about a 15% decline in the production of aircraft used in commercial air travel. “The aerospace industry will take a long time to recover from the crisis,” said Calhoun.
coronavirus During the crisis the company began to experience considerable difficulties: for example, in April there was not a single order for the purchase of Boeing aircraft. In addition, the major airlines in 2020 canceled already has 108 orders for the 737 MAX. It was the worst start since 1962, experts say, when the company began widely to sell their ships. Recall that the 737 MAX has suffered two major air crash in March 2019 in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed 346 people. Previously, Dave Calhoun, said that in may the Corporation expects to resume production of the 737 MAX. However, as noted by analysts, direct and indirect losses of the Corporation from two aircraft disasters this year will exceed 18.7 billion dollars. According to CNN, compensation customers the 737 MAX will reach 8.3 billion dollars after the suspension of the operation of these aircraft, and $ 6.3 billion will be additional costs to Boeing for the production of modernized aircraft of this series.
