ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 75 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY THURSDAY | NOVEMBER 21, 2019 Stark Aerospace lays off 25 employees Higgins said. “They’ve already LINK trying to help affected workers find new jobs in area got some very promising op- BY SLIM SMITH 120,000-square foot facility opment LINK CEO Joe Max portunities for these people.
[email protected] near the Golden Triangle Re- Higgins said he learned of the Now, it’s a matter of getting the gional Airport. It is heavily in- layoffs during an annual site word out to those employees Stark Aerospace has laid volved in unmanned aircraft visit to the Stark campus on who were laid off. Hopefully, off 25 employees, sources con- systems as well as weapon com- Wednesday. we can get them placed before firmed to The Dispatch on ponents and systems. “Any time any of our com- it becomes a major disruption Wednesday. According to Owler, a com- panies lay people off, the first in their lives. That’s our goal in Stark Human Resources pany that tracks businesses thing we do to help the people Costello Higgins this situation.” Director John-Paul Morgante throughout the U.S., Stark has who have been laid off is to get are going to be in the market.” Higgins said he believes the referred all questions to corpo- 140 employees with annual es- them placed as soon as possi- Higgins said LINK Chief employees laid off this week rate communications director timated revenue of $22 million. ble,” Higgins said. “As soon as Operations Officer Macaulay were trained in electric compo- Pete Costello, who did not re- Although company officials we heard about the layoffs at Whitaker had also reached out nent work.