Here's the old Boeing 717 plant at Lakewood and Carson in Long Beach:
Long Beach. Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Lakewood, recently spoke with Dennis Muilenburg, CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, about how to reverse the proposed 900 Boeing layoffs in Long Beach.More later ...
The downsizing, announced late Wednesday, is the latest in a series of reductions to Long Beach's once-mighty aerospace industry, where employment has dropped from more than 20,000 in the 1990s to less than 7,000 today.
Boeing said the cuts are needed to prepare for a reduced C-17 production schedule, which is 14 annually, to 10 beginning this summer.
Sánchez - a member of the President's Export Council along with Boeing President and CEO W. James McNerney - offered her assistance in working with Congress and asked about several options that might help the plant remain operative, such as reforms to export controls and overseas promotion of the C-17.
She also stressed the importance of these jobs to her constituents and the impact the job losses will have on the region.
1 comments:
I'm sorry to hear about the job losses at Long Beach, Donald! :-)
The picture is similar in Europe.
I remember when I worked for Canon at TechTeam in Brussels, Belgium.
Between our building and the NATO hq was the Hewlett Packard complex with a giant car parking lot.
Well, hp downsized and moved away and suddenly appeared all these giant empty buildings.
Well, I'm sure you'll fix the problems at Long Beach.
There is another problem at our beaches and especially in Portugal, where thousands of dead octopussies are washed ashore...
Have a time! :-)
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