Over 15,000 city employees in San Francisco will be laid off on Friday. Mayor Gavin Newsom says that most of them will be rehired if they agree to a shorter work week. Newsom’s plan is a response to the $522 million budget deficit the city is facing in the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The majority of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
In a move justified by helping the city budget, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman announced Thursday that all city departments are likely to experience layoffs. The stalling of bargaining agreements with local unions was cited as leaving 171 workers on the fence and another 44 unfilled. “This is going to be a very sad day in city [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
The city of Las Vegas is asking its employees to take an 8% pay cut for the next to years or risk wide spread layoffs. 90% of city employees are represented by four unions, who have received a letter from the City Manager asking them accept the pay cuts along with the elimination of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
American Airlines is expected to announce the closure of its overhaul base in Kansas City sometime on Wednesday morning. The facility employs 500 people, 450 of whom are unionized. No official announcement has been made yet by either the company or the union, because the company wants to address the work force [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
Hyatt has come under pressure for replacing 98 employees in Boston, all part of the housekeeping staff, with outsourced workers earning half the wages. Last week, Hyatt offered all 98 positions with United Services Company, a staffing organization used by Hyatt. The workers would keep their Hyatt pay rate through the end of [...]
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...Sunday, September 27, 2009
The biggest employees union in Rhode Island, Council 94, has accepted a tentative deal in order to prevent large layoffs and a government shutdown. The decision came Friday after a meeting amongst union leaders to discuss a provision that would allow Governor Don Carcieri to transfer workers to different jobs. Union president J. Michael Downey said he [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 25, 2009
Union reps are asking Springfield, Illinois aldermen, who have already voted to save police and fire jobs, to consider sparing 10 library employees from layoffs. According to the current budget, nine union employees and one non-union library worker will be laid off in August. The city has told nine union employees and one non-union library worker that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Los Angeles Unified School District is working on a deal with the United Teachers Los Angeles union, that may reverse some recent teacher layoffs. Teachers would take a hit in compensation, and an undisclosed percentage of the 2,000 teachers laid off this month would get their jobs back. The deal also hinges on $65 million in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
a Fifteen full-time employees and thee part-timers were let go. Eleven worked in Editorial, including sports editor Bill Callen and business editor Marlene Kennedy. The Albany Newspaper Guild, which represents half the paper’s employees, is alarmed that the layoffs came while it is still in negotiations with the paper. The Times Union is a major daily newspaper, serving [...]
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