Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as you get your work in, your 90 pitches, you can stay sharp," said Jim Curtin, who had been slotted for the final four or five innings yesterday. "You just don't want too long a layoff, like two weeks without doing anything...
...preliminary budget prepared by the city manager indicates that if the city fails to totally over-ride Prop 2 1/2 cuts, the city would be forced to layoff 55 policemen, 54 firefighters, and 133 public works employees. A separate school budget shows that 91 teachers and 23 administrators would also lose their jobs...
Several unions initially opposed workfare as anti-organized labor because it might create "free labor pools" in towns which had to layoff employees as a result of Proposition 2 1/2 tax cuts But the governor has assured labor leaders that the final plan will include provisions preventing this situation, said Peter Wright, head of the state American Federal State County Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Union...
Borg, whose five consecutive Wimbledon titles earned him the tennis world's adoration, is upset that the All-England Lawn Tennis tournament committee will be unable to seed him this year. In addition, he might have to play qualifying round matches because his seven-month layoff evaporated all traces of his world ranking...
...prospects for a settlement at General Motors are not good. Nearly half the GM work force of 330,000 is on indefinite layoff, and relations between the union and management are strained. GM wants to reopen talks, but there may not be much support for that from the rank-and-file union members. Union people complain that General Motors Chairman Roger Smith has a paternalistic attitude toward them. Industry analysts now consider a September strike at GM a real possibility. If GM begins boosting car production in May, despite the current sales slump, it will be a sign that...