Pratt and Whitney will layoff 163 unionized workers by March 12, company spokesman Greg Brostowicz has told the Hartford Business Journal.
The move comes just weeks after a federal U.S. judge ordered the jet engine maker to halt its plans to outsource factory operations in Cheshire and East Hartford to Japan, Singapore and the state of Georgia.
The ruling helped preserve 1,000 jobs in Connecticut until at least December, when the union’s current contract expires.
But the union’s victory is going to be short lived.
Brostowicz said 119 of the layoffs will occur in the company’s Cheshire plant, while 44 will be from the East Hartford unit.
He said the reduction in workforce is a result of a “significant decline in engine overhaul and repair work at the two units.”
Union workers were notified about the cuts today, Brostowicz said.
