Boeing Announces 250 Layoffs in Wichita
Boeing Co. said Tuesday it would lay off about 250 workers at its Wichita operations, partly because of program delays caused by the recent machinists strike.
The layoffs include cuts at the Integrated Defense Systems unit - reductions that Derek McLuckey, general manager of the site, attributed to delays in major programs due to the work stoppage.
On Sept. 30, about 18,400 Boeing machinists in the Pacific Northwest and Wichita returned to work after a four-week strike that shut down the company's commercial airplane assembly plants and slowed work at its Wichita defense facility.
The company said the layoffs also include previously announced reductions in its Shared Services Group and Information Technology operations - cuts that followed Boeing's decision to consolidate enterprise services and the sale of its commercial airplanes operations in Kansas and Oklahoma.
The company said it expects the overall job picture in Wichita to remain stable, citing possible recalls to meet new requirements and plans to hire additional engineers.
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