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The Boeing Company NYSE: BA has had a tumultuous 2024 mired by regulatory issues, negative publicity, lay-offs, rising debt, stock dilution, and mounting losses capped off by a 33,000 worker machinists' union strike.
Boeing faced significant challenges in 2023, including the 737 MAX accident, Starliner issues, and a strike impacting production and deliveries. Despite a year-on-year decline, Boeing secured $5 billion in airplane orders in October, with continued demand for the 737 MAX and Chinese market deliveries. Boeing's deliveries hit a multi-year low due to the strike, with a 25% decline in units and 27% in value compared to last year.
Boeing Co (NYSE:BA, ETR:BCO) has notified 438 members of its professional aerospace labour union of impending layoffs, part of broader plans to cut about 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce. The cuts come as the company addresses financial challenges, regulatory restrictions, and the fallout from an eight-week machinists' strike.
Boeing Co BA is issuing layoff notices to 17,000 employees as part of a broader effort to rightsize its workforce.
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Boeing Co (NYSE:BA, ETR:BCO) has started issuing layoff notices this week as part of a larger workforce reduction, impacting around 17,000 employees, or 10% of its global workforce. The layoffs will impact employees at all levels including executives, managers and manufacturing workers at its facilities in Washington and South Carolina.
Boeing said on Thursday it hired former Northrop Grumman executive Colin Miller to head its Phantom Works research arm within the company's defense business unit.
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The cuts, which come after a labor union strike, equate to 10% of its workforce.