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Former Boeing Plant Faces Layoffs in Spokane, Wash.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
By David Bowermaster, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--Twenty-five to 30 employees at the former Boeing parts plant in Spokane received layoff notices over the past two days as the owner, Triumph Group, cut costs to counter the weak market for commercial aircraft, union sources said.
Triumph Composite Systems, as the Spokane facility is now known, builds floor panels, air ducts and other components for airplane interiors.
Boeing is the plant's primary customer.
Jennifer MacKay, president of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) union and a worker at the Spokane plant, said she believed 25 production workers, three managers and four technical and engineering...
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