Sentences with phrase «laying off thousands»

After laying off thousands yesterday, Microsoft (s MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer visited Stanford today in high spirits, telling students that his company...

Coal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulations.

Along with falling gas prices, they've slashed the profits of fossil fuel companies, which are delaying dozens of billion - dollar projects and laying off thousands of workers.

They want raises, but not by laying off thousands of teacher assistants.

That kind of money could buy a lot of goodwill, especially if it helps states avoid laying off thousands of teachers.

«Twenty million dollars to recruit teachers as the DOE insists on laying off thousands of teachers seems curious, at best,» Liu said in a press statement.

The City Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg reached a tentative budget agreement Friday that would prevent laying off thousands of the city's public school teachers.

It supports plants to prevent them closing and laying off thousands of people.

Everyone who thinks objectively realizes that lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs, and gutting the federal government and laying off thousands of government workers creates jobs, and destroying the right to collectively bargain with your employer creates jobs, and destroying a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body and destroying her rights to any sort of privacy in medical treeatments creates jobs.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

As the Internet and telecom bubbles burst, Global Crossing careened into bankruptcy, and Legere laid off thousands of employees.

Last week, Microsoft said it would lay off thousands of salespeople as it continues to emphasize its cloud business.

It is still working through past missteps, such as its $ 7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's ailing phone business, and continues to lay off thousands of workers.

It had already laid off thousands of employees in 2013

Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid - and late - career Ph.D. s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.

There's no way to track how many workers lost their jobs as a result, but in recent years, factories in Europe and Mexico laid off thousands of steelworkers.

BEIJING (AP)-- More than 10,000 workers at a state - owned machinery manufacturer in southern China are protesting low wages and company plans to lay off thousands of staff after posting losses for three years, employees said Wednesday.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

Comptroller John Liu said the city shouldn't be spending money to recruit teachers as it's preparing to lay off thousands.

«Same smoke, same mirrors, same attempt to blame others for his decision to lay off thousands of teachers, despite increased state aid, hundreds of millions in new revenues and a surplus that has grown to more than $ 3.2 billion,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «Same smoke, same mirrors, same attempt to blame others for his decision to lay off thousands of teachers, despite increased state aid, hundreds of millions in new revenues and a surplus that has grown to more than $ 3.2 billion.»

Days after a federal judge blocked his efforts to furlough half the state work force, Gov. David A. Paterson is drafting a plan that would lay off thousands of government workers at the beginning of next year, a move officials say is necessary to help balance the state budget.

«Same smoke, same mirrors, same attempt to blame others for his decision to lay off thousands of teachers, despite increased state aid, hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenues and a surplus that has grown to more than $ 3.2 billion,» Mulgrew said in an angry response to the mayor's presentation.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Council's Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

Because of «last hired, first fired» laws and tenure protections, they will lay off thousands of young teachers, regardless of their effectiveness.

As Policy Watch reported in 2016, school districts warned they may have to lay off thousands of arts, music and physical education teachers to clear budget space for new K - 3, core subject teachers.

Brought on by a legislative order to trim class sizes in K - 3, school districts will seek respite or significant funding boosts from lawmakers in the New Year, lest local K - 12 leaders be forced to lay off thousands of teachers across North Carolina to make room for more core subject teachers.

At the end of last week, police pepper sprayed members of the Puerto Rican teachers union (FMPR) as they protested against the Fiscal Oversight Board's plan to close nearly another 300 schools, lay off thousands of teachers, cut their pensions, and impose charter schools.

When the Los Angeles Unified School District laid off thousands of teachers last spring, the school where I teach, Markham Middle School in Watts, was decimated.

Deep education cuts in Texas mean that it has begun to lay off thousands of teachers itself.

School leaders counter that, without additional specialty cash or local flexibility over class sizes, districts will be forced to lay off thousands of arts and P.E. teachers to clear funding space for new core subject teachers in K - 3.

That's all that matters — not whether you had a car repossessed four years ago due to losing a job because the economic downturn caused your company to lay off thousands of people, or one of the endless number of similar scenarios so many people have gone through.

How can we give away this money and as the same time cut the strength of our military and lay off thousands of government employees?

But instead of moving the project along, bankruptcy only made things messier: Talks among the developer, lender, contractor and the Bahamian government became contentious; Rosewood begged out of its licensing agreement with the development; the U.S. Bankruptcy Court threw out the case in September; Baha Mar laid off thousands of workers in the fall; and Bahamas court officials prepared to start a potential liquidation process in November.

Sony previously announced that they would sell two major office buildings, lay off thousands of employees and sell off its PC division to try and return to a point of profitability.

At a time when other countries are doubling down on education, tight budgets have forced States to lay off thousands of teachers.

Convincing someone to love a company might be difficult when just a few years ago it laid off thousands of workers.

Across the country, local governments have laid off thousands of employees and sought creative ways to make up for budget shortfalls.

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That means thousands of young people and new Canadians will not get that first job, and many more might be laid off.»

The company came under fire last year after it announced it was laying off more than one - thousand people, including 440 in Saskatchewan.

«There's probably about 5 — 6 thousand solar jobs in the state, and most of those jobs are going to get laid off,» Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, told ThinkProgress.

The oil majors always shoot themselves in the foot by laying off hundreds if not thousands of people In leaner times.

Another string of tweets pointed the finger at Amazon claiming it was the reason thousands of retailers were going out of business, and millions of US workers had been laid off.

But instead of reassessing their practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.

New York City School Chancellor Cathie Black says the budget cuts will lead to thousands of teacher lay offs.

Bloomberg also reiterated his threat to lay off «thousands» of city employees — including teachers — if the state fails to act.

Multi-national companies are laying - off thousands of workers while contractors working for the Federal Government have left their sites.

I applaud your conscience, Roger, but even you see nothing wrong with greasing these people while thousands get laid off.

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Only later did we learn that some of those critical investments included things like repairs on tennis courts, a study on the mating decisions of cactus bugs, hundreds of thousands of dollars for a plant database, and a $ 535 million loan to a California solar panel maker which, instead of hiring 1,000 new workers, as planned, just laid off 175 instead.