St. Louis career centers ready to help Boeing staff laid off [Video]

ST. LOUIS — More than 100 local workers at Boeing learned they’re out of a job this week. It’s part of a 17,000 employee reduction nationwide. 

Boeing is one of the largest employers in the bi-state. It boasts some 16,000 employees spanning from North County to St. Charles and into the Metro East. Now a small percentage of them are out of work, a little more than a month before Christmas.

There were protests as recent as this month, where Boeing workers demanded better pay amid furloughs and word layoffs could be on the horizon. 

After reaching a deal, some 100 local workers arrived to work Thursday only to get the pink slip.

“We had been hearing about it for a while now,” said Kenneth Riddick with the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment. “We are going …