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Title: ATK Aerospace lays off 100 employees (Thank GOP budget cuts and low taxes on rich for loss of NASA jobs)
Source: deseretnews.com
URL Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/ ... TK-lays-off-100-employees.html
Published: Aug 3, 2011
Author: Mike Anderson
Post Date: 2011-08-06 17:44:19 by Godwinson
Keywords: None
Views: 878
Comments: 1

ATK lays off 100 employees

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 6:10 p.m. MDT

By Mike Anderson, Deseret News

BRIGHAM CITY — ATK Aerospace Systems laid off about 100 employees Wednesday. The job cuts are having a big effect on the whole town.

Of the 100 employees laid off, 28 volunteered, five were transferred to other divisions and 11 of those employees are from out of state. The layoffs are the result of the end of the space shuttle program.

“It’s never easy. It’s always difficult. These people are very talented, very dedicated individuals that have contributed to America’s space program,” ATK spokeswoman Trina Patterson said.

At the height of the space shuttle program in the 1990s, 9,000 people worked for ATK in Utah. The company cut more than 800 jobs when the shuttle program started winding down in 2009. Last year, the layoffs continued with almost 1,100 more jobs slashed. With Wednesday’s cuts, a total of 2,170 jobs have been lost in just two years.

Each wave of layoffs takes a toll on the town’s local economy.

“It’s sad to see our friends and neighbors leave,” Brigham City resident Sandy Beukers said. “They’re good, good people, and (they have) kids at school. They’re parents out of work. It’s hard. It breaks my heart.”

Chuck Kellogg worked at ATK for 24 years. “Over time, they don’t get any more good contracts, things kept going downhill and pretty soon they’re laying people off,” he said. “They’ve never recovered since they’ve had the first layoffs.”

They layoff is also have an impact on the local grocery store. “It’s a ripple-down effect,” Kent’s Market store manager Lance Sitaway said. “There’s less money flowing through the economy, and it hurts everybody, hurts us here at the grocery store.”

ATK managers said they were hopeful that this will mark the end of their workforce cuts, but with a space program that's drastically changing it's hard to say for sure.

“We’re continuing to move forward and just making sure that we keep the progress that we’ve done in the past,” Patterson said.

ATK is developing a new five-segment rocket booster for our nation's future space program. It hopes to test those in a couple of months.

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I bet all these Utah people losing their jobs voted Tea Party/GOP.

I wonder how they like smaller govt and low taxes now, eh?

Somehow I feel there is karma in this.

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August 3rd, 2011 @ 6:19pm

By Mike Anderson

BRIGHAM CITY — ATK Aerospace Systems laid off about 100 employees Wednesday. The job cuts are having a big effect on the whole town.

Of the 100 employees laid off, 28 volunteered, five were transferred to other divisions and 11 of those employees are from out of state. The layoffs are the result of the end of the space shuttle program.

"It's never easy. It's always difficult. These people are very talented, very dedicated individuals that have contributed to America's space program," ATK spokeswoman Trina Patterson said.

At the height of the space shuttle program in the 1990s, 9,000 people worked for ATK in Utah. The company cut more than 800 jobs when the shuttle program started winding down in 2009. Last year, the layoffs continued with almost 1,100 more jobs slashed. With Wednesday's cuts, a total of 2,170 jobs have been lost in just two years.

Each wave of layoffs takes a toll on the town's local economy.

"It's sad to see our friends and neighbors leave," Brigham City resident Sandy Beukers said. "They're good, good people, and (they have) kids at school. They're parents out of work. It's hard. It breaks my heart."

Chuck Kellogg worked at ATK for 24 years. "Over time, they don't get any more good contracts, things kept going downhill and pretty soon they're laying people off," he said. "They've never recovered since they've had the first layoffs."

They layoff is also have an impact on the local grocery store. "It's a ripple- down effect," Kent's Market store manager Lance Sitaway said. "There's less money flowing through the economy, and it hurts everybody, hurts us here at the grocery store."

ATK managers said they were hopeful that this will mark the end of their workforce cuts, but with a space program that's drastically changing it's hard to say for sure.

"We're continuing to move forward and just making sure that we keep the progress that we've done in the past," Patterson said.

ATK is developing a new five-segment rocket booster for our nation's future space program. It hopes to test those in a couple of months.

With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-08-06   17:49:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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