More Lay Offs

[Issachar]

DETROIT (AP) -- Sagging pickup truck and sport utility vehicle sales have forced General Motors Corp. to shut down one shift each at four North American factories and lay off about 3,500 workers. more (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080428/gm_cuts.html)

Issachar

[L8DBUG]

Not good. This was in the news here today about GE.
http://www.whas11.com/justposted/stories/WHAS11_ck_080429_LocalBusiness_GE.b204f333.html

[Southern Lady]

This was in our local paper today.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20080430/NEWS/804300446/1039

It is about 90 teachers that are not returning to to system next year. Yet another article in the same paper, same school system denies any job cuts.

[windtalker]

more (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080428/gm_cuts.html)

Issachar



:scratch with diesel and gasoline getting and going where they are I would not want to be in any type of vehicle sales, not that I have ever wanted to in the first place. Of course real estate could be much worse, it all goes hand in hand.

[Issachar]

On the local news tonight, they reported another company in my county laying off 200 or 270. A plastics company that supplies the auto industry.

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?s=8248985

Issachar

[dlocal]

Very Sad.

[L8DBUG]

The industry I work for - student loans - is still hurting, not just my company, but many others.
http://www.finaid.org/loans/lenderlayoffs.phtml

[J.J.]

Man, if things get much worse, the government will have to revive the WPA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

[firstoftwelve]

it is bad in Ohio. my brother has been looking for work in Ohio too. fortunately he just got hired in part-time at the juvenile det. center. We'll see how fun that is, but it's work. He was saying that a new Bass Pro shop is opening in the area and people were lined up for a mile for on the spot interviews. It's bad down there.....

[Rondaben]

nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.