The Boeing Co. today took another step in what is becoming an incremental withdrawal from the Puget Sound area telling its informational technology workers that its plans to cut 1,500 Puget Sound area IT jobs over the next three years and set up informational technology centers in St. Louis and Charleston, S.C.
The company is expected to some workers in Washington transfers to the new locations and others will be given the opportunity to retire or leave the company with a severance package.
The move is the latest Boeing adjustment designed to shrink its footprint in Western Washington. The company …