SPEEA protesting outsourcing of IT jobs at Spirit

Published Nov. 11, 2009 at 4:53 p.m.

Spirit AeroSystems' professional and technical union is asking members to contact the Kansas Congressional delegation to protest the company's outsourcing of jobs.

Spirit AeroSystems has outsourced some information technology jobs, most of them on its help desk, to IBM. The change eliminated jobs for 37 Spirit employees and 15 contractors. It was effective Oct. 30.

Another wave of cuts is coming sometime next year, Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace officials say.

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