Cessna Aircraft’s planned layoffs are twice as big as projected last week. The company is cutting 2,000 positions, vice president Jim Walters said in a memo to employees today. Sixty-day layoff notices will be issued within the next few weeks, with separations to occur in March.
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Such is life in the aircraft industry.
There are boom times and there are bust times.
Expect similar news from Learjet in February or March after they finish trying to make their year end numbers…
Cessna should do a workshare program like Spirit did.
I posted to the wrong thread –
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Monkeyhawk
Posted January 12, 2009 at 3:24 pm | Permalink
Gee. Kansas has a lot of wind. We’re the Saudi Arabia of wind power.
Now if there were just some workers and companies around here with experience in shaping lightweight metals and manufacturing propeller-shaped thingies.
I posted to the wrong thread –
It is still funny in both places ;~>
Cessna…didn’t they just open up a plant in China?
This is what happens when Karl Peterjohn gets elected.
He’ll probably want to cut any concessions made for the new Cessna plant now.
This is unfortunate for the local economy, all local industries, and the families that it will affect. Let us refrain from the name game and finger pointing and use that energy to assist our State reps in positive solutions. one that comes to mind is placing much pressure on Washington and the Penegon to spend our money here in America for the refueling tankers. We must do what we can to prevent our tax dollars from being spent in France to build our military’s refueling tankers. This has nothing to do with Cessna, all to do with Wichita, Kansas, and America. Cessna is my company of choice, but I maintain loyalty to the American taxpayers and lobbying for what is to the best interest of American tax dollars. This lay-off will affect me personally-but will not distract me from providing solutions to/for out leaders regarding our Economic Problems. Positive results of productive solutions is the only way to correct short term problems…complaining alone, ineffective.
So tell Tiahrt, Brownback, and Roberts to undo their destruction of the “Buy American Act”! Or, at the very least not to obstruct it, when the dems bring it up again.
This is some serious stuff. It’s sad.
I rally feel sorry for the families that will be effected if this thing hangs on for as long as some think it might.
I hope they can find something, some kind of work to help.
that’s ‘really’, not ‘rally’ of course above.
I wonder if the CEOs still got their bonuses.
At least Cessna plays things semi straight.
They followed Federal guidelines as to informing workers.
Hawker does it in dribs and drabs so they don’t have to give any advance notice. The floor for advance notification is 500 employees.
In December, they let go of 490. Classy, huh?
They’re engaged now in another slow torture of their poor people putting them all in fear of each coming Thursday.
SURE the big shots got their bonuses Mary. And tomorrow, the price of the stock will likely go up significantly.
Real stupid way we have built how our economy works.
Yes, the rich get richer while the working class gets screwed. Greed always manages to find it’s way to the top.
Oh you poor suffering proletariats.
Make my heart bleed for you, you BJ who has the poorest work ethic of any individual on the planet and Mary the bleeding heart.
What business is it of yours what anyone makes or doesn’t.
Everything you have said is jealous supposition. No fact, just blowing out your a$$es
Hey Cessna !@!!
Sorry about your closing doors. But under the New Reich, we cannot have private jet ownership. The evil rich are going to pay – and pay dearly under the Great Leader.
Your product is evil. You need to come up with “the peoples airplane”. Very much like Hitler did before WWII with the Volkswagon.
Volkplane?
Reality check.
Hey, if the choice is see your exec. bonus get cut, or send some poor chumps to the chopping block, what’s a ceo to do?
And think of all the Global Warming those planes cause.
Next, they’ll shut down auto makers.
Couldn’t the Union save those jobs?
Hmmm……..What’s the Union good for then?
Yeah bawks?
I’ve worked aircraft. My family has over a hundred years in Wichita aircraft.
You know? Making things as opposed to selling them or shuffling paper?
My opinion is considerably more informed.
Like, ya know, usual?
BJ cut down at the knee caps, and he’s still trying to save the world.
“Cut down at the kneecaps”?
By a faceless, second rate nic switcher?
Don’t flatter yourself. Just keep following me around. You might learn something.
Or further amuse me.
By XXX, BJ. Where you been all day?
As the 1920’s song said,
“The poor are gettin’ poorer
And the rich are gettin’ rich.
If I don’t starve I’m a
Son of a gun!
No use to colic,
No use to rave.
We’ll never get rest
‘Til we’re in our grave.
I’m a-gonna starve
And everybody will,
Cause you can’t make a livin’
In a cotton mill.”
Of course we never learned back then, so here comes history again!
While it is no longer my task to defend XXX, I don’t THINK he’d care for you speaking for him there “Jim”.
” I’ve worked aircraft. My family has over a hundred years in Wichita aircraft.
You know? Making things as opposed to selling them or shuffling paper?”
I see you are still too stupid to realize that if no one is selling the airplanes, as an aircraft worker, you are sitting in the unemployment line or on your a$$, ops that’s what you are doing.
And by the way BlowJ, why aren’t you there now, in the aircraft industry. I would bet because you were fired and are on a employment no rehire black list.
You sure would be on mine.
It’s all because of the CONS. If CONS didn’t operate all the business in this country, there would not be any layoffs. EVER. Everyone would get a dependable wage and housing prices would always go up. Stocks would go up too. ALWAYS.
Get rid of all the CONS that own all these businesses and all these jobs will come back.
Tired of the CONS dividing and ruining your country yet? Okay, well do something about it. Join the Anti-CON coalition and pay your anti-CON dues. Get the CONS out of business and politics and your local HOA. Do it NOW!
“Making things as opposed to selling them or shuffling paper?”
You don’t make airplanes (or anything else) if they aren’t sold.
If Obama kept his campaign promise, Cessna could renig on laying off the workers and then cash in on $3,000 per job “saved”.
However, Obama’s campaign promise did not mesh well with what could be acheived in reality. So it is being sent to the soon to be crowded circular file (containing many more of Obama’s naive economic campaign promises).
“Obama Pulls Job-Credit Plan From Stimulus Bill”
“The IRS has told previous Congresses that the idea could not be drafted into law because it would be impossible to know which jobs were saved and which were created. It would therefore be difficult to determine which companies should receive the $3,000-per-job credit, according to the IRS.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/obama-pulls-job-credit-plan-stimulus/
Is this the same Cessna Company whose “executives” were going around publicly advising Wichita and Kansas government how to conduct business and who to vote for?
If they can’t even run their own company successfully, why would anyone take their advice?
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