Boeing plans to cut 8,200 jobs and eliminate 15% of its facilities as a result of the merger with McDonnell Douglas. Most of the job cuts come from the previously announced decision to end MD-80/90 production: 6,200 jobs will go at Douglas Products division in Long Beach, California, and 800 at the wing plant in Ontario, Canada.
The cuts, to be made by 2000, are in addition to plans already announced to reduce Commercial Airplane Group employment by 12,000 beginning later this year. Boeing will establish focused manufacturing and assembly centres, resulting in the loss of 900 jobs at its Philadelphia military helicopter plant with the transfer of commercial aircraft work to Seattle.
Source: Flight International
