Pratt and Whitney Canada is blaming the global slowdown in the aerospace market for its decision to slash 410 jobs from its worldwide workforce and close a Montreal-area plant by the end of next year.

MONTREAL Pratt and Whitney Canada is blaming the global slowdown in the aerospace market for its decision to slash 410 jobs from its worldwide workforce and close a Montreal-area plant by the end of next year.

MONTREAL - Pratt and Whitney Canada is blaming the global slowdown in the aerospace market for its decision to slash 410 jobs from its worldwide workforce and close a Montreal-area plant by the end of next year.

Wisconsin has recently been treated to a Keystone Cops performance by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM), which seems intent on putting its own members out of work. The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Sep 3 Focus on the Family to layoff 75 and cut 57 positions Focus on the Family announced Wednesday it is laying off 8 percent of its work force, casualties of the latest budget shortfall at the influential conservative Christian group.75 employees will lose their jobs and an additional 57 vacant positions will remain unfilled, said Gary Schneeberger, spokesman for the evangelical ministry founded by child psychologist James Dobson.In 2002, Focus’ employment reached a high

A further 50 jobs are to be lost at the Gloucestershire-based engineering company SKF. The redundancies, which affect shop floor workers and managers, are due to take place by the end of the month. An SKF spokesman said the aerospace market showed no signs of picking up