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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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" w& }! a( S9 [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.9 ]* Y9 ^: T' a( |) @# Q2 d
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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& a) Z( c" J# H( W+ M W- b: DEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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' l; [' g5 U) l" N0 t2 ~They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs. M$ ?8 Z1 e4 o! W( D
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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5 M& D. f; a" |3 {. q% aPratt & 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.3 s8 U# `8 e' g
3 `6 W/ l- }3 E/ D( m$ S: A( LNews 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.
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.+ }; u, ?% ?! }/ T1 t7 _
2 s% w5 s9 y0 u+ UPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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