Pending State Layoffs

RI Swamp Yankee · 10-15-2009, 12:00 PM

Similar situation in RI. After much shouting (figuratively) the unions agreed to unpaid days off rather that lay off the last 1,000 hired.

In the private sector we had no choice. The company I work for told us in April that we would take 5 unpaid days from June through September. We are not in a union. Most of us figured that was better than laying off people that needed jobs in these hard times. Then the company then went ahead with layoffs too!

I was one of 3 out of the 9 in my building that were laid off in May.

10-15-2009, 12:00 PM	#23
RI Swamp Yankee Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: North Kingstown RI Posts: 688 Thanks: 143 Thanked 83 Times in 55 Posts	Not only NH Similar situation in RI. After much shouting (figuratively) the unions agreed to unpaid days off rather that lay off the last 1,000 hired. In the private sector we had no choice. The company I work for told us in April that we would take 5 unpaid days from June through September. We are not in a union. Most of us figured that was better than laying off people that needed jobs in these hard times. Then the company then went ahead with layoffs too! I was one of 3 out of the 9 in my building that were laid off in May. __________________ Gene ~ aka "another RI Swamp Yankee"