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Aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney Canada is poised to lay off as many as 1,000 employees worldwide in the coming months.
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The company employs 10,000 people around the world, including 7,000 people in Canada. Most of the company's workforce is in the province of Quebec.8 d" i& J# x: J! E, s
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs. A$ q6 n2 x* A* \2 o* P
. e9 O7 `6 C0 P' ?: z* [Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.1 N5 l4 q; X7 }( v: N' |* Q
" {$ S- A5 l |4 SThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.$ U2 C& y, l4 l; n9 G( _8 D1 w/ G' I/ Q
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Pratt & Whitney Canada makes jets for Bombardier and Cessna, two airplane makers that have announced their own cuts due to a slowdown in the aerospace industry.( _. n! U4 `8 [, t6 |
- m$ H' X- H- \) t7 m( L- vNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.- d0 K7 p" I t( V& e
S( t: ?) F# ]Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.' a$ O/ z/ l7 i) P8 f( k& N
' ?% b2 a T- C7 x: j* xPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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