Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220156
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: GEORGE KEGLEY BUSINESS EDITOR
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NEW ITT LAYOFFS CUT 30 MORE JOBS IN ROANOKE AREA

The company said the jobs were cut because the Army did not award a new contract to make more Generation II night vision devices.

The idled employees have administrative jobs in all departments at the plant, said Laurel Holder, a company spokesperson.

This brings to about 240 the jobs eliminated because of the contract loss.

The hourly layoffs, posted at the end of April, also affected about 90 other employees under the contract with Local 162, International Union of Electronic Workers. Some of these employees were subject to being "bumped" into lower-paying jobs by co-workers with more seniority.

The salaried employees received 60-day notices of their job termination, as did the hourly workers, the company said.

At the same time ITT lost the Generation II contract, it won a $164 million contract to make Generation III night vision goggles. But that contract has been stayed by the General Accounting Office pending a challenge by Litton Industries, a competing bidder. Litton demanded to know why its bid of $25 million less than ITT's was not accepted by the Army.

ITT has said the quality of its products is worth a higher price.