By Julie Wernau | A dozen Chicago-area businesses have given notice to the state that
layoffs are planned, affecting more than 920 workers.
Sears Holding Corp., Unilever, Reed Business Information, Continental
Casualty Co., Material Sciences Corp., Navistar Financial Corp. and
Regional Elite Airline Services LLC at Midway Airport, notified Illinois
in April of the impending layoffs as required by the Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification Act.
WARN offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs.
Sears said it is closing the offices at its Schaumburg Parts Distribution Center, a move that will affect 84 workers. Layoffs are planned for an additional 86 workers at the company’s Chicago offices at 7601 S. Cicero Ave., which will also close.
Also closing is Material Sciences Corp. in Elk Grove Village, which provides metal coating, engraving and allied services to manufacturers, and layoffs would affect 87 workers. Regional Elite Airline Services LLC at Midway Airport, which provides passenger transportation services, also plan to close, affecting 56 workers. Unilever is closing its marketing operations for its deodorant and hair business products, affecting 192 workers in supply chain support, finance and marketing at 205 N. Michigan Ave.
It sure looks like Quinn’s plan for economic development is working. Wasn’t one promised for by now?
why aint Tribune Corp on this list? meow fat cats
Obama’s doing a great job! Only 440,000 new unemployment claims last week…down 7,000 from the previous week. So we’re still losing over a million a jobs a month. Thank God the healthcare “crisis” was Washington’s main focus. The economy and unemployment are in fine shape!
Obama plan was to Save or Create 3.5 Million Unemployment Claims
Sorry to tell you but Obama inherited this big mess from the worst president ever (Dubya); Bush bears the blame.
The Obama administration will translate these job losses into +10 jobs created at the unemployment office to handle new claims.
so right, Obama is picking up all the W’s ********
“so we’re still loosing over a million jobs a month”
Would you people please reach beyond your uninformed pre-determined, unaffected by the facts minds before makeing such statements. According to the labor department, there were 162,000 non farm related jobs added in March of 2010.www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf The unemployment rate has been holding steady for several months and is currently at 9.7% (or 15 million) unemployed. If we were loosing a million jobs a month, the unemployment rate would be increasing at about .7% a month. If that were the case, we would be at about 18% now. Please, really..check what you write and think if you want to be taken seriously.
Man are you people stupid. If the quality of your comments is any reflection of your intelligence or quality of work, I can completely understand why so many are being laid off.
As these blogs prove, there are a LOT of people out there that are unable to form a coherent statement based on fact, much less do a real job.
I’m dumber for having read the drivel posted by you knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers on this page. If you people had ANY shame, you would be humiliated to put such idiocy on display for others to read, even under an anonymous moniker. Either get a clue or shut up with your pathetic partisan hackery.
Even if that were true, which I don’t believe is, that doesn’t excuse Obama’s complete failure to address jobs and the economy and instead waste time on what will end up being an unconstitutional health care bill all to advance the libs. utopian view of a socilaized welfare state. He dropped the ball as soon as he got in office, luckily he’ll be out at the next election. Now if we can only hold out before he continues to drive the country to ruin.
Over 400,000 claims per week means out of work period whether they can collect UE benefits or not.
The 4 week average is about 450,000 or more than 1 million unemployed per month!
Maybe the problem is the disbelievers can not comprehend English.