Teledyne Ryan to Eliminate 245 More Jobs

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical plans to lay off 245 employees in San Diego over the next few months as it stops making the bodies for the Army’s AH-64 Apache helicopter. The company let 220 employees go earlier this year because of production shifts to a Boeing Co. plant near Philadelphia, but about 100 people found other jobs within the company, union officials said. The latest layoffs will cut the San Diego-based company’s work force by nearly a third, from 730 workers to about 510 employees. Teledyne officials said they doubted that workers who are let go between now and January will find other jobs within the company, unlike previous layoffs. “We will be having some other hiring and layoffs over the next few months, but nothing will compare to the size of these layoffs,” Teledyne spokesman Mark Day said.