With the fiscal year coming to an end, Plymouth County is having a hard time balancing out everything in terms of revenue as well as expenditures. It is possible that a number of cuts could take place which would ultimately lead to multiple layoffs. The ultimate plan for this current year is to work on [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2012
It’s one thing to work for the city of Surprise. It’s another thing when the city of Surprise surprises you with a layoff notice. For those of you who are not up on the towns with ironic names the city of Surprise is located in the state of Arizona. In order to do its own [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2012
When it comes in civil servants there used to be a fairly well known consensus that when the times get bad they are safe and sound when they are at work. But in the recent economy and the long-term downturns that have come to pass, even when many of their counterparts in the private sector [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2012
It looks like more and more job cuts are coming to departments of public education across the nation. This time around it is the workers of the Modesto city schools and their support staff who are going to get the boot from their public education programs. In the 6 to 1 vote Modesto city school [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2012
Jobs in education are shrinking all over the country, as what used to be considered the safe and sound jobs in even the roughest of times become a potential budget minefield. No doubt you will recall our earlier coverage of massive job cuts in the state of California, but for those of you who missed [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2012
The odds are good that you probably don’t know much about the Tennessee Valley Authority, unless you live in one of the seven states that the company services. For those of you who are not familiar with the company here is a look at how they describe themselves,”The Tennessee Valley Authority, a corporation owned by [...]
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In the past workers in primary and secondary education used to feel that, whether the economy was good or it was bad had no impact on the, that their positions where never in any real jeopardy. For very long time that was true. Once a teacher got past the two or three years that they [...]
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The odds are good that unless you happen live in Union County, New Jersey, that you have never heard of the Runnells Specialized Hospital. The specialized medical facility, which is found in central New Jersey, describes itselfin the following terms, “Since 1912, RUNNELLS Specialized Hospital of Union County as had a proud history of providing [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2012
Those of you who remember the Oak Ridge National Laboratory likely remember for its pivotal role in US history. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was part of the now infamous Manhattan Project, in which the United States developed the world’s first nuclear bomb. What does not occur to many people is that the site, which [...]
Continue reading...4. May 2012
It used to be that when times got tough in terms of economics civil servants have a certain degree of protection from the general turmoil. Certain jobs, such as policemen, firefighters, and school teachers seems it is almost sacred in previous downturns, but this is not the case in the current bad economy. Long gone [...]
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