Employees at several APTIV Corporation plants will be experiencing temporary layoffs.

The electronic parts supplier has plants on North River Road in Warren and in Vienna, totaling 85 employees.

IUE-CWA Local 717 Shop Chairman Brian Lutz says the layoffs stem from downtime at the plants due to a downturn in the automotive industry.

Lutz says the company is taking whole departments down for a cycle at a time. They’re on a continuous run working three days on three days off with four different crews.

In one plant, they’re taking down two crews so it will be down for three whole days, while in the other plant they’re taking down one crew, meaning it’ll operate for 12 hours on those three days. Currently, one crew is on a layoff.

Next week it’ll effect three crews at the local plants.

Lutz says the short-term defined layoffs are for a work-week at a time on a rotating basis.

“There is no permanent layoff being discussed. There is not thought of local management at this that there is going to be a need to have a permanent layoff,” Lutz said.

Lutz says he anticipates membership will endure temporary layoffs in some aspect or another for the remainder of the fiscal year.