Boeing laying off 30 workers in Jacksonville (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Daily Record) — After announcing in October it would cut 10% of its global workforce, The Boeing Co. filed notices with the state saying it is laying off 141 workers in Florida, including 30 in Jacksonville.
The notices filed Nov. 18 under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act listed four sites in Jacksonville affected: two offices on the Westside at 6200 and 6225 Lake Gray Blvd. and facilities at 6211 Aviation Ave. and 6105 Flightline Road at Cecil Airport in West Jacksonville.
Boeing has been expanding its operations at Cecil, including opening a $245.8 million maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in February.
The city issued a permit Nov. 12 for a $90 million project to build a 201,714-square-foot hangar, which will bring its total space at Cecil to more than 1.1 million square feet.
The company has not said how many employees it has in Jacksonville, but the JAXUSA Partnership economic-development division of JAX Chamber has reported Boeing has 400 workers.
“The Boeing Company has made the difficult decision to reduce its workforce,” the company said in its WARN letter to the Florida Department of Commerce.
“This decision is expected to result in the permanent layoff of approximately 141 employees at the Company’s Florida locations. Layoffs are expected to begin on January 17, 2025,” it said.
The letter listed 18 locations for the company in Florida.
The largest layoffs in the state were at several locations near the Kennedy Space Center, where it is cutting 48 jobs.
Boeing’s plan to cut jobs announced Oct. 11 would affect about 17,000 workers worldwide.
Besides its filing in Florida, Boeing filed WARN letters last month in seven states affecting 3,509 jobs, according to a Nov. 21 story by industry news site Manufacturing Dive.
The largest cuts were about 2,000 in Washington, where the Arlington, Virginia-based company has its major aircraft assembly facility.
The company has been dealing with a number of issues that affected its finances, including well-publicized safety concerns about some of its airplanes.
It was also dealing with a machinists’ strike that had halted some of its production when it made the announcement, but that strike ended Nov. 5.
Boeing reported a core operating loss of $7.8 billion in the first nine months of this year, with revenue falling 8% to $51.3 billion.