I’ve been in quite the letter writing mood lately.

(Chicago, IL) — September 23, 2009 . Today in Vienna, Illinois Judge Todd Lambert of the First Judicial Circuit will hear a request from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31 for a preliminary injunction to block the September 30 layoff of hundreds of Illinois state employees by Governor Pat Quinn .

PENTICTON—Last minute cuts announced by the Ministry of Education have led the Okanagan Skaha School District (67) to take the unprecedented step of issuing layoff notices to almost 50 staff.

Ford and the United Auto Workers are set to begin new contract talks under a set of circumstances radically different from any previously faced by either party.

A federal judge refused Monday to prohibit District Attorney Tony Rackauckas from temporarily laying off investigators in his office to help revolve an $8 million budget shortfall. Judge Cormac J. Carney ruled that the union representing D.A.

Almost every job seeker I meet has some sort of “special circumstance” that they feel needs to be addressed in their resume. For some, it’s accounting for the dotcom they worked for that went bust after 9 months or the year they took off from work to care for an aging parent or newborn

August 15, 2009, 12:00 AM ET Terminating California By Marc Bousquet x-posted: howtheuniversityworks.com Bob Samuels is the president of UC-AFT , the union representing nontenurable faculty at University of California campuses across the state. Like thousands of others, he recently received a layoff notice in the wake of the chancellor’s assumption of ‘emergency powers’ (the academic equivalent of martial law). On his blog recently, Bob explained how 3500 U.C.

GM axes last five UAW workers MASSENA FACILITY: After 50 years at plant, union vacates building By LAURA BOMYEA JOHNSON NEWSPAPERS SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2009 ARTICLE OPTIONS   MASSENA — A United Auto Workers flag has flown over the General Motors Powertrain Plant here for more than 50 years, but it’s gone today, along with the union’s five remaining workers, who were informed last week they no longer have jobs. A handful of salaried employees repo

New Delhi, Aug 11: Following reports that there will be more layoffs in IBM, the company’s employee group Alliance@IBM claims that the layoff numbers for the year could touch 16,000.A media report quotes the union as saying that the company has Click Here To Read the Full Post

GM had a target figure of employees it needed by the year end. Though 6,000 hourly workers have already left voluntarily, GM is till falling short of the target and may have to layoff another 7,500 workers