Tag: Boeing

Boeing Lays Off Another 400 Workers in Second Round of Cuts

737 Max aircraft are seen in various states of assembly at the Boeing 737 factory Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Renton, Washington.

Boeing has laid off another 400 Washington workers in a second round of job cuts, according to a notice filed Monday with the state’s employment security department. That’s in addition to the 2,199 layoff notices Boeing delivered to Washington workers last month, bringing the total number of job cuts in the state to nearly 2,600. […]

Saving Boeing Is the Hardest Job and Biggest Opportunity in Business

During the Boeing Machinists strike, more than a dozen 737 Max fuselages heading to Renton, Washington, were stored on train cars in a railyard just south of the stadiums in Seattle, unable to be finished.

In November, Sen. Ted Cruz, who next month will become chair of the Senate committee overseeing aviation, told new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that if the plane-maker suffered just one more high-profile safety issue, “your company is in deep, deep trouble.” “I think he’s right,” Ortberg told Boeing employees, relaying the conversation in an all-hands […]

With Drones Changing War, Army Revives a ’20-Year’ Chinook Project at Boeing Plant

U.S. Air Force CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Poland

In a move that elected officials say could keep the assembly line at the Boeing plant in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, busy for 20 years, the U.S. Army has canceled a proposed attack helicopter by rivals Lockheed Sikorsky and Bell Textron and transferred funds to upgrade Boeing’s Chinook helicopters and smarter drones. The Army said Thursday […]