Pratt and Whitney Laying off 1,000 workers......

[Parche]

The Machinists' union plans to take Pratt & Whitney to court to try to prevent the company from closing its Cheshire jet engine repair plant and laying off more than 1,000 workers there and in East Hartford, union officials said Monday.

Two months after saying it was "evaluating" a shutdown of those operations, Pratt announced earlier Monday that talks with union and state officials had failed to produce "a reasonable alternative," and that the work would be transferred out of state and overseas.

The Cheshire plant, which employs about 800, will close by early 2011, preceded by a 200-employee airfoil repair unit in East Hartford, which will close by the middle of next year.

All employees at both locations, union and nonunion, will be laid off. Their work will be sent to existing Pratt plants in Columbus, Ga., Singapore and Japan.

Layoffs will start in early 2010 and proceed gradually until the doors in Cheshire close for good, Pratt officials told reporters at a mid-day press conference, shortly after informing employees.

Pratt, a division of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp., currently employs about 11,000 in Connecticut.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-pratt-plant-close.artsep22,0,2793148.story
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I have and idea....lets move ALL of our manufacturing plants overseas......:grr: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

when is this sh*t going to stop?

soon we will not have any manufacturing plants in the US......

[Blue_Tires]

1. they are building a huge Rolls-Royce plant here in VA

I don't know if it is union or not....

[AndyA]

2. People still haven't figured out that when NO ONE in the United States has a job,

there will be NO ECONOMY. NO BUSINESS. NOTHING.

Manufacturing jobs must remain here. Congress needs to pass a law that fines companies for offshoring operations and personnel. Tax breaks should be given only when companies create facilities and jobs HERE in the United States.

Penalize them for going overseas; it's the only way they'll "get it" if they ever do. :(

[sharp_stick]

3. I guess the billions they made

from us during the shrub years just aren't enough. $1,000 says the CEO and his fucking cronies don't even take a bonus cut this year or next.