Boeing To Shut Plant With 2,160 Workers As U.S. Cuts Defense -- Bloomberg Businessweek
an. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. plans to shutter operations in Wichita, Kansas, where it has built airplanes since 1929, by the end of 2013 as military projects dry up amid U.S. spending constraints.
Job reductions at the plant that employs more than 2,160 workers will begin in the third quarter of 2012, Boeing said in a statement today. Work on the aerial-refueling tankers the Pentagon ordered in February will be done at the planemaker’s wide-body jet factory in Washington state instead, and some existing work will be moved to Texas and Oklahoma.
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More News On Boeing Closing their Defense Plant In Wichita, Kansas
Boeing to close Wichita plant, cites defense cuts -- Reuters
Boeing shuttering Wichita plant -- DoD Buzz
Boeing To Close Wichita Defense Plant -- Aviation Week
Air Force One maintenance moving to San Antonio -- Houston Chronicle
What a Defense Drawdown Looks Like -- John Hudson, The Atlantic
My Comment: This Boeing defense plant has been in operation since 1929 .... even during the height of the Great Depression. This closure gives a good indication on how much America is changing .... and on how much our industrial defense base is now being impacted by budgetary constraints and the desire among many in Washington to now draw-down our military.
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