Boeing will lay off more than 200 workers based in South Carolina as part of a massive cost-cutting drive that will slash 17,000 employees — or 10% of its workforce. The aerospace giant last week notified 220 employees who assemble the 787 Dreamliner aircraft at a Charleston-based facility that they would be let go,

Boeing announced that it has so far laid off 2,199 employees in Washington state, according to a notice submitted to Washington’s Employment Security Department. The company began drastic workforce cuts on November 1,