Boeing is slated to lay off more than 2,000 workers in Washington and Oregon following an announcement from the corporation saying it plans to cut 17,000 jobs, or about 10% of its global workforce.

The planned layoffs became known following a filing from the aerospace giant to the Washington State Employment safety Department. The department’s worker adjustment and retaining notification layoff and disclosure database says the date for layoffs will be Dec. 20.

According to the database, 2,199 workers in Washington will be impacted. According to reporting from Reuters, about 438 members of the population of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) received layoff notices last week.

Among these, 218 of them were engineers and 220 were technicians, Reuters said.

These layoffs arrive after a tough year for the corporation, which has been plagued with plane safety concerns and strikes in some of its plants.

Boeing plans to lay off 17,000 jobs

In October, Boeing’s CEO Kelly Ortberg said the corporation planned to cut Boeing’s total workforce by 10%.

“Over the coming months, we are planning to reduce the size of our total workforce by roughly 10 percent. These reductions will include executives, managers and employees,” Ortberg said. “The state of our business and our upcoming recovery require tough actions.”

A period of strikes and safety issues

Strikes and safety concerns have recently plagued the corporation. In October, workers in the Seattle area walked off the job for the first period since 2008.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), whose members walked off the job had reached a deal with the corporation, ending the strike Nov. 4, but could now face layoffs.

In September, the National Transportation Safety Board issued an urgent warning regarding Boeing 737 planes, saying a piece of the rudder control structure on these planes could misplace functionality in cold weather.

Contributing: Reuters

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