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Boeing To Lay Off Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown (reuters.com)
According to Reuters, Boeing has warned its employees that it "planned another round of involuntary layoffs that would affect hundreds of engineers at its commercial airplanes unit." From the report: The latest job cuts followed a prior involuntary reduction of 245 workers set for May 19 as the company responded to increasing competition and slowing aircraft sales. The additional layoffs are due to start June 23, according to the memo from John Hamilton, vice president of engineering at Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "We are moving forward with a second phase of involuntary layoffs for some select skills in Washington state and other enterprise locations," the memo said. "We anticipate this will impact hundreds of engineering employees. Additional reductions in engineering later this year will be driven by our business environment and the amount of voluntary attrition."
That is correct. Most of the Dreamliner for example is made outside the US, and increasing amounts of engineering are moved as well.
The days when Boeing made most of the airplane in the US are long gone, and have been for a while.
The demand for engineering resources and the demand for production resources don't necessarily coincide. The article you linked to is referring to production.
You really need to read that article again, starting with the summary at the top. You are either illiterate or biased and missed the point that Boeing was violating federal labor laws by actively choosing to re-locate an existing plant to another state. Regulation of such actions is the squarely the NLRB's job. Details of the actual complaint are here.
No, the timing of the relocation decision following a strike at the Washington plant such that the relocation was a punishment to those workers for the act of organizing and striking is what made the action illegal. Read it all again, and the NLRB page.