Over 180 employees at Boeing’s Mesa factory in Arizona will be impacted by the company’s planned personnel reduction. The aerospace giant has faced numerous financial and regulatory obstacles, which have been made worse by the aftermath of a West Coast machinists’ strike. According to 12News, the notifications given to employees on Tuesday served as the basis for this personnel reduction.
Boeing announced the layoffs of 184 Mesa employees in a notice submitted to Arizona Job Connection. This action comes after Boeing said in October that it will be laying off 10% of its employees in the coming months. Since two deadly incidents involving its 737 Max airplane and an incident in January where a panel separated from the body of an Alaska Airlines aircraft, Boeing has been facing increasing difficulties, according to ABC15.
The business has been struggling with slower production rates, and it has not yet met the Federal Aviation Administration’s production cap of 38 737 MAX aircraft per month, which was enforced when a labor strike in November completely stopped production lines. In an October call, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg explained that the latest layoffs were caused by overstaffing rather than the labor strike, and that more cuts are anticipated in December. According to ABC15, Ortberg claimed that “the labor strike did not cause the layoffs.”
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