Sikorsky lays off more than 50 workers from Troy plant

TROY, Al.
More than 50 employees who worked for Sikorsky have been laid off from jobs related to the company's helicopter manufacturing and assembly operations.
Sikorsky is headquartered in Stratford, Conn., and has about 9,000 employees there.
Paul Jackson in the Sikorsky communications office said the cuts came as part of a restructuring plan announced last year.

Jackson didn't cite the number of layoffs, but employees at the Troy facility who wished to remain unnamed, along with Troy Mayor Jimmy Lunsford, said the number of people laid off was more than 50.
Before the Thursday cuts, 750 people worked at the facility. Jackson said Sikorsky mitigated the impact of the cuts through a voluntary separation program and is working to assist those now without jobs.