Boeing to lay off 10% of its workforce

Agencies

Troubled U.S. aviation giant Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months or about 17,000 people, as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a weeklong strike that is crippling production of the company’s best-selling airline planes.

New CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff in a memo Friday that the job cuts will include executives, managers and employees.

The company has about 170,000 employees worldwide, many of them working in manufacturing facilities in the states of Washington and South Carolina.

Boeing had already imposed rolling temporary furloughs, but Ortberg said those will be suspended because of the impending layoffs.