Didi VanNierop, a local spokeswoman for Chicago-based Boeing (NYSE: BA - News), says the job cuts are due to a slowdown in the company's workload. The Boeing Aerospace Support Center currently has about 1,600 local workers.

"We have a decrease in some of our program workload and as a result need to right size our work force so that we don't have more employees than we have work," VanNierop says.

Seventy of the positions being eliminated, she says, will be among the ranks of contract workers. The remaining 50 are Boeing employees.

Those employees who will be affected by the cuts, she says, will be notified Thursday by their managers and provided assistance in finding other jobs through Alamo WorkSource.

Boeing's job cuts will affect aircraft mechanics, VanNierop says.

However, she adds, Boeing is still waiting to see if it will win renewal on two U.S. Air Force contracts. One of these contracts would be for Boeing to continue servicing the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. Part of this work comes to the KellyUSA facility.

The cuts, she says, will not affect Boeing's ability to fulfill these contracts or the quality of its work.

Boeing also works on the KC-10 and C-130 aircraft programs in San Antonio.

Source: San Antonio Business Journal