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Trucking Layoffs * USA - Rise in January
BLS employment data shows spike, but job losses are well below year-ago levels
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Mar 12, 2010: -- The trucking industry continues to lose workers, but it's cutting jobs at a lower rate than a year ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics... The number of mass layoffs in trucking increased from 24 in December to 37 in January, pushing up initial unemployment claims from former workers in the industry 40 percent to 2,887 in January, according to the BLS data... Total employment in the trucking sector slipped 1.3 percent in January, according to provisional figures for that month from the Department of Labor agency...Labels: layoffs
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