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[其他] Layoffs coming at jet maker Pratt & Whitney

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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.
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- l. r8 p  V! t& o' LIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.: o1 j3 Q7 d( F3 E/ u+ \

! }, ?: D( S2 w  C1 vEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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: p2 E+ \" |# T7 ~They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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" B6 @# o  ^. i4 w8 gSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.7 Q4 B2 D1 s8 X" U8 n. O
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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.* i1 C# p: a8 b. f! J. H5 P

7 e5 W& O% z. e! h6 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.( s& P8 ^7 t0 S2 i! S
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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.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.
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