100 non tenured teachers in the Kaneland, Illinois school district will receive lay off notices by the school years end. The lay offs are part of an effort to mitigate the loss of general state aid to the school district next year. First, second and third year teachers will be targeted for lay offs. No [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
Bunge North America will cut 100 jobs when it closes its soybean processing division in Danville, Illinois on April 23. Executives at the company blame the shut down on the state of the soybean market, which they say is oversaturated. Added transportation costs associated with the plant made it a prime target for closure and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
A proposed deal to house inmates from Guantanamo Bay in a prison in north western Illinois could bring as many as 4000 jobs to the area, according to Democrat lawmakers who are in support of the plan. Their Republican counterparts are opposed to the deal, citing concern for the hazards of bringing terrorism suspects [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
Nearly 30 jobs are at risk in the Rockford, Illinois. City representatives are preparing to vote on a proposition that would add three dollars to the sanitation removal fee as well as increase the city residents’ water bills by three percent. Should these amendments be passed, the city expects that it will generate around two [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
Judge Todd Lambert of Saline County, Illinois prevented the layoffs of 2,500 state employees. Governor Pat Quinn requested the layoffs in an attempt to balance the state’s budget. Judge Lambert ruled that the state cannot go forward with the layoffs until grievances raised by the union were resolved. This could take months. Spokeswoman Ashley Cross reacted [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Sanford Corporation will close its Janesville, Wisconsin facility and send over 100 jobs to Mexico. One hundred and fifty people will be jobless when the plant, which makes pens, by March 2010. Manufacturing and distribution jobs will go to Mexico, while administrative work will be sent to Sanford’s Oak Brook, Illinois headquarters. Sanford is a Newell Rubbermaid [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
Ameren Energy Resources will cut 84 jobs at three Illinois energy generating facilities. The sites now employ a total of 200. The cuts will be complete by Q1 2010. Ameren Corporation was created in 1997 by the merger of Missouri’s Union Electric Company and the neighboring Central Illinois Public Service Company. It is now a holding company [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Chicago, Illinois’ Health Care Service, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, will cut 650 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce. The layoffs will be complete by Q1 2010. Health Care Service Corporation, founded in 1936, is a non-investor-owned mutual insurance company. With 13 million members [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
Caterpillar is laying off 75 employees at its Mapleton, Illinois foundry. The company is considering shutting the plant for two months if orders don’t pick up. The layoffs were announced by the United Auto Workers Local 974. The plant will employ 525 people after the layoffs. Founded in 1925, Caterpillar is a corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Clarcor will layoff 150 workers at its Rockford, Illinois plant, and an undisclosed number at its Campbellsville, Kentucky facility. Second-quarter earnings were down 32% from Q2 2008. But the firm intends to reverse the trend with new products in 2010 and 2011. Franklin, Tennessee’s Clarcor is a distributor of industrial, mobile and consumer filter products and services. Share [...]
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