SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing said in a notice filed Monday with the Department of Employment Security in Washington that it has laid off 2,199 workers in the state so far, among job cuts that will eventually total approximately 17,000 throughout the company.

The aerospace giant announced in October that it plans to cut around 10% of its workforce in the coming months as it struggles to recover financial and regulatory troubles as well as a strike by its machinists which lasted almost two months.

The planned layoffs include workers at Boeing facilities across the country, from Washington to Missouri to Arizona to South Carolina, The Seattle Times reported.

They also appeared to affect workers in all three of Boeing’s divisions: commercial aircraft, defense and global services.

Before last week’s layoff notices, Boeing had 66,000 workers in Washington.

Among the layoffs so far are notices that went out last week at over 400 members of Boeing’s aerospace professional union, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees of Aerospace, or SPEEA. Workers will remain on the payroll until mid-January.

Boeing’s unionized machinists began returning to work earlier this month strike.

The strike strained Boeing’s finances. But CEO Kelly Ortberg said on a call with analysts in October that he had not caused the layoffs, which he described as overstaffing.

Boeing, based in Arlington, Va., was in financial problems since two accidents of its 737 Max plane killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019. The company’s fortunes and reputation were further damaged when a the panel exploded from the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane in January.

Production rates slowed to a crawl, and the Federal Aviation Administration capped production of the 737 MAX at 38 planes per month, a threshold Boeing had not yet reached when the machinists’ strike halted assembly lines.

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