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.

construction and mining: 16,100
manufacturing: 58,400
trade, transportation and utilities: 49,500
information: 6,100
financial activities: 12,200
professional and business services: 26,300
educational and health services: 38,400
leisure and hospitality: 25,200
other services: 12,100
government: 38,500

It's 2000 jobs out of a metro population of over 600,000. It's not like it is the citys only employers.

Hawker Beechcraft, Bombardier, Cessna, and Airbus still have plants there.

I would think part of the reason those companies have plants there is because of Boeing.

How many tier 2, 3,and 4 Boeing suppliers will leave or go out of business because Boeing is gone? Hopefully they shrug the loss of jobs off like its nothing but I highly doubt it since it's never just those jobs at the main plant that are lost.


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