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  • Chicago Tribune Greg Burns column: Manufacturing job plunge may be terminal 23 Nov 2009 12:15 GMT
    ... Meyer's company has not imposed a single layoff. Hypertherm is among a relative handful of ... force. As for the rest of American manufacturing, layoffs prevail. And the alarming rate of ... among other products, all employ far fewer workers than at the start of the decade. ...

  • Small Business Stays 'Attached' To Laid-Off Workers 23 Nov 2009 00:50 GMT
    ... "attached unemployment" — a kind of temporary layoff many companies are using these days. The ... in October fell into this category. Traditionally, manufacturers have used attached unemployment, but now more ... month to pay health insurance for her laid-off workers. "Of course, we'd be in a ...

  • As US Debt Tops $12 trillion, Obama Calls for Austerity 23 Nov 2009 16:34 GMT
    ... with a tax incentive to hire new workers and boosting US exports, which he cited ... and its shift from being the world’s manufacturing leader to the center of global financial ... this year―attributing it to employers carrying out layoffs and then “asking their remaining workers to ...

  • U.S. Government's Size: The Slow-Motion Crisis 23 Nov 2009 13:34 GMT
    ... chart, which compares the growth in government workers to the decline in manufacturing jobs, illuminates the entire situation perfectly: Government ... such as suspending rules governing state worker layoffs. With many state workers due to receive ...

  • Many at Harley thinking 'yes' but fear vindictive votes 23 Nov 2009 00:52 GMT
    ... D-York City, said he empathizes with union workers who, like many Americans, face financial problems ... plastics to the plant, and Hanover-based Leonhardt Manufacturing Co., a 90-employee tool and die firm, ... in business since Harley imposed a two-week layoff. She says the economy is bad as ...

  • Many at Harley thinking 'yes' but fear vindictive votes (video) 23 Nov 2009 15:13 GMT
    ... D-York City, said he empathizes with union workers who, like many Americans, face financial problems ... plastics to the plant, and Hanover-based Leonhardt Manufacturing Co., a 90-employee tool and die firm, ... in business since Harley imposed a two-week layoff. She says the economy is bad as ...

  • Auto-parts maker Intermet closing 2 Minn. plants; cuts 180 jobs 23 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... December and lay off its remaining 180 workers in the state. The Fort Worth, Texas-based ... downsized from 140 employees in 2008. The layoffs are expected to be permanent, according to ... the state announcing the moves. Intermet, which manufactures parts for the automotive market, has struggled ...

  • UPDATE 1-Taiwan Oct orders bode well for global upturn in Q4 23 Nov 2009 10:07 GMT
    ... and the elevated level of the Asian manufacturing surveys, is an important signal -- even ... and industrial output have stumbled and the unemployment rate jumped above 10 percent. EXPORTS THE ... percent, and analysts expect the number of layoffs to ease in coming months. (Additional reporting ...

  • Legislation could boost business for AGC Flat Glass 23 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... new line would mean, he said some laid-off workers could be recalled. “We’re trying to operate ... Run” plant in Bridgeport, W.Va. The facility manufactured glass for the automotive industry. Asked if ...

  • Barbara Ehrenreich: Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World 23 Nov 2009 08:10 GMT
    ... account both corporate heads and elected officials. Manufactured optimism has become a method to make ... of health and the victims of corporate layoffs for their inability to find worthwhile jobs. ... attitude. And then you could count on employers to buy them up and distribute them ...

  • Notes from NIT League I: What's Your Favorite Letter? 23 Nov 2009 13:20 GMT
    ... at the annual meeting of the National Industrial Transportation League in Anaheim, Calif. Specifically, which ... to survive in the wake of heavy layoffs and multiple terminal closures. Railroads appear to ... the silver lining for shippers? Assuming that manufacturers, distributors and retailers can stay in business, ...

  • Wichita banks see climbing numbers of at-risk loans 23 Nov 2009 05:50 GMT
    ... estate loans, as the economy suffers from layoffs at the city’s aircraft manufacturers and from the side effects of those ... aviation industry cutting back and laying off employees (or) the trickle down to those businesses ...

  • AbitibiBowater juggles to avoid large tax bills from $250-million loan 23 Nov 2009 14:05 GMT
    ... year earlier largely because of lower costs. Manufacturing costs decreased $446 million due partially to ... alternative U.S. fuel tax credits. Head office layoffs and elimination of a series of corporate ... $1.3-billion pension shortfall. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union and Abitibi want the federal governments ...

  • Industrialists: Declining dollar to prompt mass layoffs 22 Nov 2009 13:55 GMT
    ... unattended will prompt hundreds of thousands of layoffs, Israel's Manufacturers Association warns. A survey undertaken by the ... companies will be forced to layoff more employees should the dollar exchange rate continue to ...

  • Midland-Odessa still separated by workforce types, experts say 22 Nov 2009 10:54 GMT
    ... to persist. "Midland has a lot of workers that are defined as white collar and ... CEO Willie Taylor, Odessa will lose 100 manufacturing jobs while Midland loses none. The actual ... logging and construction industry than Midland. After layoffs were factored in though, Midland actually surpassed ...


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