埃德蒙顿华人社区-Edmonton China

 找回密码
 注册
查看: 1731|回复: 0

[其他] Layoffs coming at jet maker Pratt & Whitney

[复制链接]
鲜花(687) 鸡蛋(1)
发表于 2009-2-11 15:05 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
Aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney Canada is poised to lay off as many as 1,000 employees worldwide in the coming months.! Y8 E9 D5 r4 _7 q9 n2 K' z
( V. r; n, i4 n6 X$ F; x+ U
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.: G7 v% Q4 b3 {

8 D9 d2 j9 v3 ^2 O- s8 |It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.: v! z* }4 I3 R5 b
( q6 W3 o6 F5 F
Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
' e+ N" Y! ^3 s  J* B  h7 g
  k, Y/ L# b: HThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.2 h! r* g8 Q  D- j
: e/ M1 t3 q9 X' }% o) F7 R3 @4 |
Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
- `' a7 T. F- k8 l" D" }5 c. G% m+ @+ a
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.$ ]' m& ^3 ^  ^+ N3 @) d

' d& w2 U3 x: C# sNews 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.8 Z% T; T3 h# A, |" M' K) B7 |

- N5 Q: \  `4 t; q, ULast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.
$ n1 g) E$ W& Q% a, F8 m, n
  t6 J# v- f& w  r& P4 pPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.
您需要登录后才可以回帖 登录 | 注册

本版积分规则

联系我们|小黑屋|手机版|Archiver|埃德蒙顿中文网

GMT-7, 2026-4-21 04:02 , Processed in 0.097660 second(s), 10 queries , Gzip On, APC On.

Powered by Discuz! X3.4

Copyright © 2001-2021, Tencent Cloud.

快速回复 返回顶部 返回列表