Staff with picket indicators outdoors the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility throughout a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.
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Boeing will furlough a “giant quantity” of U.S. executives, managers and different employees, citing the continuing machinist strike as the corporate races to protect money, CEO Kelly Ortberg informed workers on Wednesday.
The furloughs will have an effect on tens of hundreds of Boeing workers, an organization spokesperson stated.
The plan got here lower than every week after Boeing’s greater than 30,000 machinists within the Seattle space and Oregon voted down a brand new labor contract and 96% voted to strike, strolling off the job simply after midnight on Friday.
Ortberg stated affected workers would take one week of furlough each 4 weeks for the strike’s period and he and his crew would take “commensurate” pay cuts throughout the strike.
“Whereas it is a robust choice that impacts all people, it’s in an effort to protect our long-term future and assist us navigate by means of this very troublesome time. We are going to proceed to transparently talk as this dynamic state of affairs evolves and do all we will to restrict this hardship,” Ortberg stated in his message.
Boeing’s CFO Brian West earlier this week stated the corporate would freeze hiring and raises to chop prices, and would let “non-essential contractors” go briefly.
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