Boeing to cut jobs at Dreamliner plant

SEATTLE: Boeing Co will cut hundreds of jobs at a South Carolina plant that makes 787 Dreamliners this year, but the move has nothing to do with the recent grounding of the troubled jetliner, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The cuts, which chiefly target contract workers, are not uncommon as productivity improves on a new airplane programme and were conceived before major problems with the 787s battery surfaced, the Journal said. Reuters