Boeing to lay off almost 7,000 workers this week
Boeing announced plans to lay off 6,770 workers this week, as the coronavirus crisis continues to hammer the aircraft manufacturer. "We have come to the unfortunate moment of having to start involuntary layoffs.
We’re notifying the first 6,770 of our U.S. team members this week that they will be affected," Boeing CEO David Calhoun wrote Wednesday in a letter to employees he called an"update on workforce actions." Citing the "whipsawing" of the global pandemic, Calhoun said "it will take some years" for the airline industry to"return to what it was just two months ago." Air travel has seen a 95 percent decline in traffic since the coronavirus hit, with major airlines canceling flights, pulling out of airports, and laying off large swaths of their staff. In March, Chicago-based Boeing saw a near-record number of order cancellations for its passenger jets, and zero new orders in April, exacerbating the company's financial woes. The troubled 737 Max aircraft has been grounded worldwide since last March, following two fatal crashes.Feds' response to Native Americans is another 'broken promise,' Warren, Haaland say Two Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are asking the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to update itson how the federal government has failed to sufficiently fund Native American communities in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The report,"Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans," described vast health care, housing and educational disparities and stated that"the efforts undertaken by the federal government in the past 15 years have resulted in only minor improvements, at best, for the Native population as a whole." "The Administration's failure to uphold the trust responsibility to provide adequate relief, health services, and public safety resources to tribal communities has exacerbated the pandemic's impact. This failure requires the Commission's voice," Warren and Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico wrote in their request to the commission, which makes recommendations to the administration. The lawmakers noted that promised federal funding to tribal nations and urban Indian organizations wasShare this -New York City, now doing about 20,000 coronavirus per day, hopes to have that rate up toto conduct 27,000 tests"It's getting easier and easier for more and more New Yorkers to get testing," the mayor told reporters during his daily briefly on the city's efforts to fight the global pandemic."And that's going to help us move forward."
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