For the people, with the people
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 7:27 am
Spring Hill Mayor Michael Dinwiddie has begun working the line at GM’s Spring Hill plant, where the last Chevy Traverse will roll off the line in three weeks.
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Dell shutting down Raleigh plant
Posted on October 8, 2009 at 7:21 amThe computer maker — which recently signaled just how confident it is about future success in that business — will in January shut the doors to its 900-worker plant in Raleigh, N.C. The slimmed-down Nashville operations of the once-high-flying company appear to be safe while the folks in Carolina fret about the fate of more than $300 million in incentives.
SEE ALSO: Background on Dell, including its local cutbacks over the past year
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CCA laying off 120 in Minnesota
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 3:30 pmThe Nashville-based prison manager has cutting more than half of the payroll at its Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., after losing a State of Washington contract. Earlier this year, the company (Ticker: CXW) had avoided layoffs by trimming work hours.
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HCA laying off in Vegas
Posted on August 20, 2009 at 8:11 am
The Nashville-based hospital operator is cutting about 100 jobs at its Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Sin City. The company says the layoffs, which will include managers and support staff, are primarily due to lower reimbursements and a rise in the number of uninsured patients. HCA last month appointed a new COO at Sunrise.
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Firestone unit laying off in Arkansas
Posted on August 17, 2009 at 7:59 am
Firestone Building Products, which makes synthetic rubber products used in commercial construction, is cutting 90 jobs at a plant near Texarkana.
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GM’s buyout falls short
Posted on August 3, 2009 at 12:52 pmAnd the auto maker may have to lay off more than 7,000 hourly people to meet its previously stated goal of reaching 40,500 people.
G.M.’s contract with the U.A.W. calls for hourly workers who are laid off to receive most of their pay through a combination of state unemployment benefits and supplemental pay from the company, though the union recently agreed to shorten the time that assistance was available.
A blue-collar statistic dressed in red
Posted on July 28, 2009 at 7:07 am
The Nashville-area manufacturing sector is now downright hemmorhaging jobs. Year-over-year declines have increased from about 5 percent last summer to more than 13 percent. For the full set of numbers from MTSU’s Business & Economic Research Center, click here.
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WSJ: Gannett to cut hundreds more
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 12:13 amThe Wall Street Journal reports that Tennessean parent Gannett will lay off at least 1,000 workers in the coming days.
The impending move, which follows several aggressive cost-cutting efforts by Gannett over the past year or so, reflects the gloomy near-term outlook for an advertising recovery. The publisher cut 4,600 jobs last year and followed that by requiring most of its remaining employees to take unpaid leave in the first and second quarters.
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Sitel cuts another 400 jobs
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 9:26 pmThe Nashville-based call center manager appears to have embarked on a major reshuffle. It will close its Port Arthur, Texas facility at the end of August, shedding 409 jobs. That news comes just days after the company, a unit of Canada’s Onex conglomerate, said it would shutter a 350-job center in Ontario.
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Sitel shutting down Canada center
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 8:51 amThe call center operator will shed 350 jobs by closing its facility in Sudbury, north of Toronto. The two-year-old site had at one time been expected to employ 1,000 people.
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Firestone unit laying off in Texas
Posted on June 19, 2009 at 7:16 amAt least two dozen workers at the Firestone Polymers plant in Orange, Texas, near the Louisiana state line, will be let go in the coming week. The plant was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike last September.
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Great news for those still around
Posted on June 15, 2009 at 10:17 amThe fact that HCA laid off nearly 100 people from its corporate IT department last December didn’t stop Computerworld from recently naming it one of the best places to work.
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) announced today that it has been selected as one of Computerworld’s top workplaces for information technology professionals. HCA is ranked No. 56 on the publication’s top 100 list.
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Lawyers as line workers
Posted on June 7, 2009 at 9:44 amFrom a Times story examining the angst created by layoffs at Wall Street firms:
“To the extent that lawyers are simply churning out the same problems one after the other and are treated as factors of production to be laid off or not because of market forces or marginal declines in profitability,” he said, “the emotional and professional commitment that goes along with being an adviser and a solver of problems begins to diminish.”
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Still sober on the job market
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 11:25 amOne of the creators of the ADP National Employment Report says a million more jobs will disappear before the end of this year. But it’s not all gloom.
“This was a weak report with the weakness widespread,” Prakken said. However, “maybe we’re starting to see some moderation in these job losses. The free fall in the economy is likely over.”
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Older workers hit hard by economy
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 7:34 amOlder workers spend more time unemployed between jobs than younger workers, labor data show. For someone who is 45 or older, it takes an average of 22 weeks to land a job, compared with 16 weeks for younger job hunters, according to an analysis of 2008 statistics by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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