UPDATE from 6pm
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Workers affected by the layoffs at Special Metals reacted to the news in various ways Friday.

"I'm going to look at taking a job in advertising," laid off worker Anthony Newbey said. "That's what I have my degree in, and I'm looking at the layoff as a good thing."

Newbey and 86 other junior employees at Special Metals are off the job come Monday.

"I've only worked here two years," Newbey said. "I'll go back into what I have my degree in."

Sixty-six employees at the Huntington plant and 19 workers in Burnaugh, Ky., are being laid off, company spokesman Dwight Weber says.

"The layoffs are a result of weak general industrial markets," Weber says. "We hope there will be a change in the economy so those laid off could come back some day."

Weber says the local plants serve oil and gas, chemical processing and pollution control -- three markets said to be hit by a bad economy.

Melanie Sias has worked at Special Metals for six years. She's not on the lay off list, but she's still concerned.

"If I lose this job, it will really hurt me," she said. "I'm putting my kids through college. If I lose my job, I don't know what I'm going to do."

Sias says fewer employees means more work and overtime for those still at the plant.

There is a chance those who are laid off can eventually come back to work, depending on economic conditions during the next few months.

Union President of Local 40, Greg Kingery said workers got the news Thursday.

Kingery says 66 workers will be laid off at the Huntington plant and 19 will be jobless at the plant in Burnaugh, Kentucky.

Kingery cited economic conditions for the layoffs.