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July 10, 2006
GROTON, Conn. — Electric Boat, a subsidiary of defense contractor General Dynamics Corp., said it issued pink slips to 440 employees Monday.
Most were at the Groton shipyard, where 368 hourly production and production-support workers and 48 salaried employees were laid off, a company spokesman said. Twenty-four employees at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington state were also laid off.
Planned layoffs were announced earlier this year. Officials said between 1,900 and 2,400 jobs could be in jeopardy because of a decline in submarine design, maintenance and repair work. In March, 154 employees lost their jobs in a first round of layoffs.
"To preserve the future of this company, we have to align the size of our work force with the level of our work load," said Robert H. Nardone, vice president of human resources.
The company employs about 10,800 people, 7,900 of them in Groton.
The affected employees will be given 60 days notice during which they can use career-transition services provided by the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board in New London and other programs.
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