Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corp. will show off its new, snappy, four-seat, low-slung G24 sports car. To Chrysler, the car is more than just another way to get around. Largely because of the G24, Chrysler, for the first time since 1978, will be recalling U.S. workers who have been on indefinite layoff...
Chrysler will increase its Fenton work force, used for building LeBarons, convertibles, Dodges and the successful K car, to as many as 4,300 people, from 2,600, and will also install some 45 welding robots. First crack at the jobs will go to 3,300 Chrysler workers on layoff from the plant. There was widespread relief in and around St. Louis, which has an unemployment rate of 11.1%. Said Missouri Governor Christopher Bond: "We have seen unemployment far too high, far too long." Sighed Richard Burton, president of United Auto Workers Local 136 in Fenton: "Good news has been...
...victory ups the Crimson's record to 8-3-1 in the ECAC (10-4-1 overall) and makes the two-week layoff until the big showdown with Clarkson a bit more pleasant...
...their plants close down and workers go onto indefinite layoff and the hard winter sets in, Americans want help. They begin to regard themselves as the suckers of international trade, the only free trade purists left in a world of venal nationalisms...
...Harvard Independent, ending a three-year layoff, announces that it will resume publishing original material in the fall...