Boeing to Move 1,100 Jobs From California

The Associated Press Published: Jul 31, 2001

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Boeing Co. will move 1,100 engineering jobs in its international space station and space shuttle divisions from Southern California to Texas and Florida in an effort to cut costs and locate workers closer to customers, company officials said Tuesday. The move comes as NASA attempts to curtail an estimated $4 billion in overruns connected with the space station project. The agency also has trimmed space shuttle upgrades to save money.

The relocation of Boeing employees - about 1,000 from a facility in Huntington Beach and another 100 from a Canoga Park plant - is designed to cut costs through consolidation. The move is expected to be completed by Nov. 1.

Boeing now has about 7,000 employees at its in Huntington Beach facility. Employees who do not want to accept jobs in Houston or the Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be given the chance to seek other jobs within Boeing's Southern California operations.

Most of the affected jobs are in engineering or other professional functions.

Boeing got its shuttle contracts when it bought Rockwell International Corp.'s aerospace business. It picked up most of its space station work when it acquired McDonnell Douglas.

Earlier this year, Boeing said it would cut as many as 500 jobs at its rocket manufacturing plant in Huntington Beach, as the company concentrates those operations in Colorado and Alabama.

In El Segundo, Boeing Satellite Systems is cutting 400 jobs, mostly in administrative staff, while planning to hire 200 engineers to meet growing demand for those systems.

AP-ES-07-31-01 1849EDT

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

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Dan's brother works for boeing...has for yrs. moved from Ohio to Kansas, and now to Texas.... we like OHIO!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001