ATK Laying off Lake City Army Ammunition Plant Employees
The Kansas City Star reports that ATK is implementing voluntary layoffs at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant …
Hourly workers at the federally owned Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence have been given voluntary layoff offers as part of a plan to reduce the workforce of 2,600.
The cutbacks result mainly from modernization efforts during the last eight years, according to Bryan Kidder, a spokesman for Alliant Techsystems, which operates the facility for the U.S. Army.
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He also attributed the cutbacks to “recent drawdowns in military actions.
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No layoffs till further notice they are having issues within the company
Lake city has the possibility to make any ammo type needed. The layoffs are the effect of atk trying to run at the minimum. And once again they are trying to do it. The modernization doesnt work as well as they thought or even at all. They are trying to cut out as many jobs as possible. Since atk has been there they have cut out a lot of jobs and also gotten rid of people that are necessary. They are outsourcing as much as possible. Dang near all the rebuilds of broken machinery, and the new stuff coming in is all contractors. They won a 7 billion dollar bid for this new contract and then turned around and layed people off. They cut the work force down past the point of doing good. The maintnance personal can not keep up. And to cut out more they are traing people to try and run jobs that normally take two or three people. So..... is what they are doing right?