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January 5, 2007
HUNTINGTON, IN. - More than 100 workers have been laid off from a northern Indiana plant that makes electronic components for heating and cooling control units.
United Technologies Electronic Controls cut the jobs of 112 hourly workers as of Monday, company and union officials said.
"It's by far the largest layoff we've ever had in the history of hourly workers at the plant," said Tyler Brown, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 983.
But most of the layoffs at the plant about 20 miles southwest of Fort Wayne were voluntary, Brown said.
Slumping sales in the new-housing market made the job cuts necessary, said Mary Milnoe, a spokeswoman for the Hartford, Conn.-based company. She said that 87 of the laid-off workers had volunteered.
"This layoff is temporary in nature," she said. "The employees will be recalled as sales production increases."
Before the layoff, the plant employed 750 people, including about 640 hourly workers.
Brown said that in the past the plant enough volunteers to deal with smaller layoffs of 20 or 30 workers, but the large number of layoffs this year mean that the company laid off workers with the least seniority.
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