It seems like workers in the state of New York may never be safe in their jobs again. Just weeks after the state governor came to agreement with the civil service union, and gaining the ratification of a new contract with some major concessions, one that had it not been passed would have meant the [...]
Continue reading...30. November 2011
When you think NASCAR the odds are you think of fast drivers, faster cars, and burned out wheels. You probably do not give much of a thought to the fact that NASCAR actually employs hundreds of people in order to keep the races going week after week. Yet the many companies that make up the [...]
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Did you get the impression that despite the official announcements that the recession is over the economy isn’t actually getting any better? Maybe you have a feeling that it’s actually getting worse? In the recent past couple of months if you have tried to express such an opinion there is no doubt that some people [...]
Continue reading...29. November 2011
When a hospital chooses to let go off staff they do not just put people out of a job. After all the clinical staff at a hospital provides a valuable community service. Every nurse that is let go on a unit means that all of the other nurses will have to divide their attentions further [...]
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Those of you who follow our coverage here at Layoff Watch with any frequency will recall a recent piece we did, covering the budget conflict in the city of Detroit. The city mayor had a plan to help correct the budget issues, but at a heavy price to the people who are employed by the [...]
Continue reading...29. November 2011
The odds are that when you give the piece of paper in your hand any thought at all that you probably are thinking about the contents, and not the actual medium that the content is on. To compound the issue if you asked the average person where their paper came from you would probably get [...]
Continue reading...28. November 2011
The town of Pullman, Washington is like a lot of other university towns. It is a center for local culture, it has an active nightlife and the areas local economy can be profoundly influenced by the budget of the college that surrounds it. For those of you who are not from the area, Pullman is [...]
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Bad news for the workers of A123 Systems, the company is expecting to let go about 125 of their staff members from facilities in Livonia and Romulus, Michigan, in an effort to cut costs and remain in the black. This brings the overall size of the facility to about 700 workers, after the layoffs that [...]
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Layoffs of a fair size may be coming to the state of Illinois. The good news is that they can be prevented, at least partially. The bad news is that in order for that to happen the politicians in the state are going to have to set aside their differences and work together to approve [...]
Continue reading...23. November 2011
Construction has always been the kind of work that comes and goes. People who work in this field know that you have a job as long as there is a project to be completed. When the project is done, you are back out in search of a new project. It is a system that relies [...]
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