Cat Recalls Most of 400 Workers Laid Off in IN

$50,000 training grant expected to raise engine-plant payroll to 2,250

Sep 23, 2011

Caterpillar Inc. has recalled many of the 400 workers it laid off from a Lafayette, Ind., engine plant and expects to hire as many as 350 of them back.

(More on Cat's Lafayette, Ind., restaffing . . . )

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