A Coca Cola Bottling plant in Rochester, New York will stop production in November, leaving 57 manufacturing workers jobless. About 120 sales and distribution workers will remain. Founded in 1886, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola Company sells its signature carbonated soft drink in more than 200 countries. Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Paul Reed Smith Guitars will lay off 30 employees, go to a four-day manufacturing week, and end its nighttime manufacturing shift. After the cuts, the firm will employ 250. PRS recently completed expanding its Maryland factory to produce acoustic guitars and amplifiers. It got a $10 million bond from the Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunoco is permanently closing its ethylene unit at its Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania refinery, after the facility was damaged in an explosion and fire in May. Fifty workers will be laid off. The firm is negotiating with the United Steelworkers to work out details of severance packages. The union represents 700 employees at the refinery. Ethylene is a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery will to cut 553 employees’ hours by at least half at its Kernersville, North Carolina plant. The production slowdown will last until at least September. Affected workers include 471 manufacturing employees, 60 manufacturing support staff and 22 office support staff. The firm is trying to avoid layoffs, or a complete shutdown of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Alcoa has reached a deal with the New York Power Authority to delay and defer payments in order to reduce the number of planned layoffs. The aluminum maker, hit hard by a 60% drop in sales prices, said the deal results in layoffs of 170 employees. Alcoa had previously planned to close two smelters, laying off [...]
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