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September 06, 2010
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W.A.R.N. Act May 08
Because we don't have to!!!!!
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According to a number of recent reports, "Available evidence now overwhelmingly shows that providing workers with advance notice of layoff generates substantial benefits to displaced workers, their families, local communities,and the economy in general. These benefits vastly outweigh any reasonable estimate of costs. By shortening the duration of unemployment after layoff, advance notice stems the loss of worker incomes and saves the economy unemployment benefits and social costs we would otherwise have to pay."

Given the social importance of advance notification of layoff how can any company that claims to be socially aware or boast about its "triple bottom line" refuse to give advance notice simply because they claim they do not have to

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Harvest reductions or lay-offs? May 05
WeyCo Seeks harvest reductions
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In a number of recent meetings WeyCo management claims that in order to look out for your interests the company should announce permanent reductions in harvest levels which would mean that jobs are destroyed.  Instead of what they have been practicing which is reducing volumes by laying you off for a few weeks and then working a few weeks on?  At the WeyCo group meeting the consensus was that saving jobs was more important and more needed in the long term rather than destroying jobs.  The union leadership expressed the opinion that as long as the jobs were protected by the minimum harvest levels when the market returned the jobs would return

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