Posted on 08/24/2012 8:19:29 PM PDT by matt04
United Technologies announced last week that it plans to cut 150 salaried positions around the world, including 70 white-collar jobs at UTC Aerospace Systems, formerly Hamilton Sundstrand, here.
The company is cutting 150 salaried positions globally, according to a news release.
But locally, the 70 cuts will be on top of 130 blue collar machinist jobs the company is hoping to eliminate through buyouts and layoffs as part of job cuts first announced in 2011. The first 80 machinist jobs were already cut through attrition, according to a news release from the company.
Anthony J. Walter, president of Local Lodge 743 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said UTC is moving the aircraft engine work to factories in Singapore, Russia, Poland, Puerto Rico and Phoenix. Those cutbacks were announced in 2011.
Walter said UTC is also eliminating 55 blue-collar jobs at Windsor Locks because it is losing the contract to build NASA space suits and the backpack extravehicular unit astronauts wear on spacewalks.
The 130 jobs will be gone by the middle of October. The space-related jobs will last into 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
..... just some Obambaeconomics trickling down....
“UTC is also eliminating 55 blue-collar jobs at Windsor Locks because it is losing the contract to build NASA space suits and the backpack extravehicular unit astronauts wear on spacewalks.”
What about all those new jobs Obama created in the NASA Muslim Outreach Program?
...That's OK ...with the NASA mission to improve the self esteem of islamics they can space walk without a suit....since they weren't available back in the seventh century.
when I was a child, Hamilton Standard employed 35,000 people in the mid 70’s, Pratt & Whitney over 75,000
Hamilton, now UTC Aerospace, employs less than 2000
Pratt less than 5000
the day the tornado hit in 1979, it was 15 minutes before rush hour, thousands would have been on the road in the direct path of the tornado
the UNIONS priced themselves out of a job, this downsizing happened over decades after the Berlin Wall came down, so, Obama doesn’t get too much blame for this one here in Windsor Locks
Well they will have plenty of time to look into why Kenyan has a SS# from CT.
You know, I’d support that idea. Offer Muslims a spacewalk, and allow Allah to protect them from the vacuum. . . .
(evil grin)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303649504577494783727664496.html
I don’t think I’ll shed a tear.
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