Logistics company increases number of Tampa layoffs eightfold

A week after LGSTX Cargo Services told state officials it was laying off 26 employees in Tampa, it has sent a second letter increasing the number of jobs to be cut to 217.

The new letter is identical to the first except in that it lists the higher number of employees, 191, and includes a different list of positions affected. It is unclear why the letters were posted on the state’s Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification’s database a week apart.

Ernie Hayes, the director of human resources for Airborne Global Solutions, LGSTX’s Ohio-based parent company, would not comment on the layoffs Tuesday and said he would pass a message requesting comment along to the company’s head of marketing. That message was never returned.