A report from Manufacturers’ New Inc. reveals California lost 5 percent, or 79,000, of its industrial jobs during the past 12 months. Especially hard hit was the southern part of the state. Los Angeles remains the city with the most manufacturing jobs in the state with 85,238, but the Southern California region lost 56,681 jobs, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Pasadena Unified School District in California will cut 164 jobs to meet a $23 million budget gap this spring. Layoffs include teachers and administrative staff and the school board expects to save $20 million in the move. 76 of 120 classroom teachers losing their jobs are elementary school teachers. District Chief Financial Officer John [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
Yesterday 140 elementary school district layoffs were approved by Redwood City officials in California. These cuts were made to close the $13 million gap in the district’s budget. Lay offs were approved for 127 full time equivalent teachers, 11 temporary teachers, and 9 other administrative staff. The layoffs are not yet final and California law [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 1, 2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on February 23 that 1,761 mass layoff actions were filed for the month of January. At least 50 employees had to be laid off in order to be considered such an action. Seasonally adjusted, this resulted in the release of 182,261 workers, based on the fillings of unemployment insurance [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Long Beach, California School district may lay off up to 750 employees by the end of the school year. The final number of lay offs will depend on retirements, resignations and changes in the financial circumstances of the district. Counselors, social workers, vice principals, 470 elementary school teachers, 41 middle school teachers and 145 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
Sacramento Regional Transit is prepared today to lay off up to 300 employees. The lay offs are a part of the organizations effort to reduce a $36 million budget deficit. Regional Transit has already cut many routes and increased rider fares. Administrative staff will be the first to be laid off. Driver, mechanics and other [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
Video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc. will lay off 200 employees and shut down their development studio Luxoflux in Santa Monica, California. On Wednesday Activision reported fourth quarter net losses to be $286 million. This loss was attributed to deferred revenue from its online efforts and weak sales of its Guitar Hero games and other [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Northrop Gruman, the aerospace company behind the stealth bomber and the F/A-18 fighter, announced that it is moving its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to Washington DC. Northrop currently employs approximately 27,000 people in Southern California but says only a handful of corporate jobs will be moving, leaving the rest of its operations in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 10, 2009
Unilever is closing a plant in Southern California that makes personal care products under brands such as Dove. 61 jobs will be cut as the company shifts production to its plant in Jefferson City, Missouri. Southern California can ill afford to lose the jobs, with statewide unemployment at almost 13% and some parts of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
Residents of California have paid a deposit on drink containers for two decades under the premise that they could return the empty container to be recycled and get the deposit back. Because the recycling rate never reached even 75%, the state was taking in more money than it returned. The surplus was used [...]
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Monday, March 15, 2010
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