Washington State’s Boeing factories aren’t the only plants affected by the loss of a U.S. Air Force contract.  Employees in Gresham, Oregon, the site of a Boeing parts manufacturing plant may be affected as well.

AFL-CIO president Tom Chamberlain says the state stands to lose nearly a thousand jobs, two-hundred of which are in Gresham.  Moreover, Chamberlain says the job loss has state-wide financial ramifications…

Chamberlain:  “That equates to about eight billion dollars a year in payroll costs, and we also know when you earn a dollar in Oregon, it ripples in our economy five times.  So you’re talking almost forty million dollars that we will lose because we don’t have this contract.”

Boeing has filed a formal protest to the air force’s decision with the government accountability office.