SDG&E has laid off 50 of the company’s non-union IT staff, according to the business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 465. The union that represents many of the utility’s workers.
These aren’t the first workforce reductions this year. The firings come on the heels of layoffs in other departments and after the utility offered staff an early retirement package earlier this year.
Representatives for SDG&E blamed rising costs for the layoffs, which they said were an attempt to streamline operations. But Fairman struck a different chord. In his telling, the layoffs were about “corporate greed.”…