"Mass. companies cut 20,000 jobs; Unemployment steady in March" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | April 17, 2009
Massachusetts employers slashed more than 20,000 jobs in March while the unemployment rate essentially held steady at 7.8 percent, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported yesterday.
That is in ONE MONTH, folks!!!
The state's economy has shed jobs in each of the past 10 months, and lost more than 105,000 in the past year.... Job losses were widespread in Massachusetts in March, with only one major sector, education and health services, adding jobs. Employment in the sector, which includes hospitals and universities, rose by 100. Traditionally a stable component of the state economy, education and health services have added 3,800 jobs in the first three months of the year.
Tell it to the nurses.
Leisure and hospitality, which includes hotels and restaurants, led employment losses in March, shedding 6,200 jobs. Professional and business services, which include consulting, technology, and scientific firms, cut 4,700 jobs, with losses concentrated among companies that include temporary help agencies, according to the state.
Two sectors hardest hit by the recession, manufacturing and construction, continued to sustain big job losses. Manufacturing shed 2,800 jobs in March, and has lost nearly 16,000 jobs.... Construction has lost more than 17,000 jobs.... State and local governments cut 600 jobs last month.
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"Mass. firm to produce turbines; Aeronautica, partner planning N.E. factory" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | April 17, 2009
Aeronautica Windpower LLC, a Plymouth company that refurbishes wind turbines, is expected to say today that it has reached a deal with a Danish company to open a factory to manufacture commercial-size turbines.
Aeronautica said it is already scouting New England for sites for the facility, which initially will employ up to 100 people to make turbines under an exclusive licensing agreement with Norwin A/S, a turbine technology company in Denmark.
We are losing THOUSANDS a MONTH and the agenda-pushing Globe is crowing about a possible 100 jobs in the fart-mist industry?
The plant will produce 225-kilowatt and 750-kilowatt machines, suitable for wind projects at schools, municipal facilities, and shopping centers. Company officials said they hope to power the facility with its own turbine....
Well, we will need all 100 because another agenda-pushing favorite just caved:
"Teradyne to lay off 65 Mass. workers; Falling chip demand hits N. Reading firm" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | April 18, 2009
Stung by continuing weakness in world markets for microchips, Teradyne Inc. of North Reading will lay off 11 percent of its global workforce, including 65 Massachusetts employees, and cut the pay of top executives.
"We're losing a lot of money. Therefore, we had to take action," said company spokesman Andy Blanchard. Teradyne, the world's top producer of microchip testing equipment, warned last month....
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Related: Teradyne the Tip of the High-Tech Iceberg
Oh yeah, almost forgot these guys:
"Guaranteed jobs came at a price; Globe, other papers gave security and got concessions" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | April 18, 2009
Few people outside the newspaper industry have heard of lifetime job guarantees. But they have become key and contentious issues in the union negotiations over the future of The Boston Globe.
The Globe is among several big city dailies, including the flagship paper of its owner, the New York Times Co., that have used such guarantees as way to introduce new technology and gain other concessions without risking strikes by unions. Now the Times Co. is seeking to undo those guarantees....
Oh, I SEE!! So LABOR'S CONTRACTS mean NOTHING!!
Yeah, the UNIONS ALREADY GAVE to the newspaper and now they WANT MORE, huh?
Related: Boston Globe Executives Got Six-Figure Bonuses
Yeah, I noticed this MANAGEMENT SCREWING by the "liberal" paper was covered on a SLOW SATURDAY, too!!!
At the Globe, lifetime guarantees for nearly 470 employees are spread across six unions....
In a contract ratified in 1994, shortly after the Times Co. bought the Globe, the Boston Newspaper Guild gave up a no layoff clause, plus other concessions, in exchange for job guarantees for some 700 members hired before 1992 who would otherwise have lost the no-layoff protection. In 1999, the Times Co. extended lifetime job guarantees to 55 more Guild workers in exchange for a variety of additional concessions. Today, about 190 Guild members with guarantees remain at the Globe....
After working more than 37 years at the Globe, James Franklin, 62, an assistant night editor, is among those with a job guarantee. He said the company is going back on a promise it made to employees that it would not seek to eliminate the guarantees.
"Dropping job guarantees and seniority would allow the firm to dismiss its older, better-paid employees," Franklin said. "It means the union won't be able to protect any wage it bargains in the contract."
That's ONE WAY of DESTROYING THEM!!!!!
Officials from both the Times Co. and Globe declined to comment about job guarantees....
Lifetime guarantees began finding their way into newspaper union contracts as early as the 1960s, and became prevalent during the '70s and '80s, as publishers introduced computers and automated operations that over time have eliminated thousands of jobs and indeed, entire crafts.
Newspaper only seems to care when it's in regard to illegals.
Needing the assent of unions for the change, many newspapers promised lifetime employment to existing workers whose jobs were in jeopardy. The concessions bought by the guarantees led to 30 years of increasing profits for publishers as efficiency gains from technology more than offset costs of keeping on workers whose jobs had vanished, according to John Morton, a longtime media industry analyst.
I DIDN'T HEAR the papers complaining then -- or giving anything back!!!!!!!!!
Average newspaper profit margins peaked at about 23 percent in 2000.
Then 9/11 and the LYING began!!!! Any connection?
Publishers realized another benefit, too: weaker unions. Technology that allowed pages to be set by editors in the newsroom instead of printers in the composing room meant far fewer people could put out the paper, undermining unions' ability to shut down production.
Yeah, that is a GOOD THING!!!! Screwing labor is a GOOD THING to the newspaper! Well, their coverage of business issues sure gives it away.
No wonder the newspaper industry is dying!! You put out a piece of shit day after day and people notice!
The US newspaper industry averaged 30 to 40 strikes a year in the 1960s, according to Morton. Now, they are rare. The last major newspaper strike occurred in Seattle in 2000....
And newspapers are following them.
In many ways, job guarantees recall days when newspaper publishing was largely a manufacturing industry, requiring armies of blue collar workers and skilled tradesmen who set type, composed pages, engraved photos, ran the presses, and packaged the paper for delivery.
You've lost more than a job and a newspaper, America -- you've lost a culture.
Employment guarantees are concentrated among members of production unions, such as press operators, printers, and mailers, who insert editorial and advertising sections into papers. These unions gave up work rules, such as minimum manning requirements, and other job protections that allowed publishers to further automate operations.
What ungrateful assholes!!!
Of course, the "news business" is all about MAKING $$$$, not telling the truth.
Which is why the papers ain't making any money!!!!
Unions "all gave up job security protections," said Richard Rosenblatt, a lawyer who represents the printing sector of the Communication Workers of America....
Who can blame unions for not wanting to give up anything. They give an inch, management wants a mile, and you can wipe your ass with the contracts!
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