The Whirlpool Corporation is getting ready to get rid of staff. The company made an announcement on Thursday letting the world know that it will be closing one of its manufacturing facilities by the middle of 2012. The facility that will be closing is located in the town of Fort Smith. Workers at the Fort [...]
Continue reading...31. October 2011
As it turns out the American public still has a large amount of optimism left in it, even during these very bleak times. Give the media coverage of the current long-term economic down turn and the very serious problems that are growing number of Americans are facing, with no source of income, no health insurance [...]
Continue reading...31. October 2011
On Thursday the House of Representatives passed a measure, one that is part of President Obama’s jobs package that is designed to repeal an IRS withholding tax. This is one of the few measures in President Obama’s $447 billion initiative that members of the Republican Party in congress have actually agreed to support. The measure [...]
Continue reading...27. October 2011
In what local workers and the Chinese media have begun to call the “winter chill” of the electronics industry yet another Chinese electronics maker has begun to lay off their workers in order to stay fiscally solvent. Inventec, a company that frequently contracts out to make the devices that are created by the American IT [...]
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Bad news has come for the workers, and the community surrounding, the Peninsula Hospital. Peninsula Hospital, which is located in Far Rockaway, New York, is getting ready to make some serious cuts to its staff. Staffing cuts that may lead to a delay in vital care and critical community services. These staff cuts come during [...]
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The schools in the city of Philadelphia are staring down the barrel of some serious cuts to their budget and those cuts could result in the loss of badly needed jobs. According to an announcement made by Michael Masch, the school district of Philadelphia’s Chief Financial Officer, almost $17 million in new cuts will need [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2011
When most workers are let go there is usually not much to be done about it. The people using the companies products usually do not care that much, or if they do, they do not care enough to do anything about it. As it turns out the fans of Marvel comics are not those kinds [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2011
Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the statistics about the mass layoffs done in the United States for the month of September and companies in a few of the biggest states in the union are letting employees go at a startling rate. California, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida were the first four [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2011
As it turns out, employers in the state of Colorado were more likely than those in other states to enter into what are known as “mass layoffs” in the month of September, when it is compared to the month before in the same state. These statics come to us courtesy of the US Labor Department’s [...]
Continue reading...25. October 2011
The citizens of the state of New York are already facing some serious potential cuts to their services, but it could get even worse for some people in the Lower Hudson Valley area as county jobs are not only going to be potentially cut by the state, but by the county itself. In addition to [...]
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31. October 2011
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