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JOB CUTS & STRIKES
* USA - In Freightliner future - With truck orders slowing down, white-collar workers are offered buyouts
Portland,OR,USA -OregonLive.com, by BRENT HUNSBERGER -Oct 03, 2006: -- Freightliner chief executive Chris Patterson, in his first interview with The Oregonian since taking the top job nearly 18 months ago, said he expects the truckmaker to cut Portland jobs as it attempts to cope with a looming dip in heavy-duty truck demand... The first step came Monday when North America's largest maker of commercial trucks offered voluntary buyouts to its white-collar workforce, including 1,900 at its Portland headquarters. The DaimlerChrysler subsidiary is also likely to lay off manufacturing workers at all of its North American plants in coming months, Patterson said...
* USA - Trucking firm lays off an estimated 30 workers in Salem
Salem,Oregon,USA -The Statesman Journal, by MICHAEL ROSE -Oct 4, 2006: -- Employees of Stewart Stiles Truck Line in Salem and Cornelius have lost their jobs after Greatwide Logistics Services determined that the 50-year-old trucking operation no longer fit into its plans... The company’s corporate parents was formed in 2000 when Fenway Partners, a New York-based private equity firm with more than $1.4 billion in funds under management, acquired Transport Industries, a trucking carrier in Mesquite, Texas...
* USA - Strike, lockout loom in talks at Goodyear
Cleveland,OH,USA -The Detroit News/AP -Oct 05, 2006: -- By this afternoon, 12,000 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. employees in 10 states may be locked out of their jobs or could go on strike if the company and its unionized workers don't agree on a new contract... Talks were under way in Cincinnati between the Akron-based tire maker and the United Steelworkers union...
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