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At White House Request, Lockheed Martin Drops Plan to Issue Layoff Notices
ABCNews.com ^
| October 2, 2012
| Mary Bruce and Jake Tapper
Posted on 10/02/2012 9:00:00 AM PDT by castowell
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin heeded a request from the White House today one with political overtones and announced it will not issue layoff notices to thousands of employees just days before the November presidential election.
Lockheed, one of the biggest employers in the key battleground state of Virginia, previously warned it would have to issue notices to employees, required by law, due to looming defense cuts set to begin to take effect after Jan. 2 because of the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction the so-called Super-committee, which was created to find a way to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit over the next decade.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2012; alinskytactics; backoffbarry; bhocorruption; bhofascism; bribery; corruption; criminalpresident; debates; defensespending; democrats; economy; elections; govtabuse; impeach; jobs; lockheed; lockheedmartin; lokcheedmartin; nobama2012; obama; obamatruthfile; pagingmittromney; sequestration; thuggery; unemployment; virginia; warnact
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Unreal.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:00:10 AM PDT
by
castowell
To: castowell
so they will still be laid off, just not notified in accordance with the law?
To: castowell
So, people have to wait until after the election to learn who gets the chop. Yeah, that is going to make family budgets fun...
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:01:40 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: castowell
Turn out the lights, the party is over.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:01:59 AM PDT
by
rhubarbk
To: castowell
Is this finally the outrage that is TOO blatant for the likes of the NYTimes, ABC, MSNBC, to ignore?
He's breaking the law to influence the election and he's not even trying to hide it.
Without a vigilant press, we are doomed to armed revolution.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:02:53 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
So much for Obama’s management of news.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:04:30 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
To: dead
This is nuts. So what happens IF he wins and 20,000+ workers are laid off? Crickets?
I worked at GD when A12 was canceled and between GD and McAir over 10K were laid off in ONE DAY.
This is unfreakingbelievable.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:04:59 AM PDT
by
Qwackertoo
(Romney/Ryan 2012 The Future of Our Children and Their Children are at stake.)
To: dead
>> Without a vigilant press, we are doomed to armed revolution.
Did you see Pat Caddell’s rant against the Leftwing propaganda machine? It was good.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:05:49 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: castowell
Just when I thought I couldn’t be more of a Boeing fan...
The upside is that every worker at L-M knows that Obama is not only the reason this is being hidden, but is the reason that the cuts are happening in the first place. They also know that Obama tried real, real hard to keep people just like them from having good jobs in SC by siccing his labor board on Boeing. And, our guys will be able to pound away at this from the stump just as much as they could pound away at actual losses.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:05:54 AM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Reagan @ only 39/Mondale +5/Dukakis +17/McCain +3...panic is unwarranted. So is complacency.)
To: castowell
So what are we saying here?
That the workers at Lockheed Martin are stupid? That they do not read news papers? Watch TV news?
Regardless of a memo going out in November wouldn’t you think that most of the workers there have some knowledge of this possibility?
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:08:32 AM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
To: castowell
Lockheed Martin got the message there was an existential threat if they went ahead with the notices and Obama was re-elected.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:11:00 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Army Air Corps
I’m sure the majority already know if they’re getting laid off.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:13:18 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: castowell
“drops plan” Lib speak for “breaks the law requiring”
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:14:25 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: castowell
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin heeded a request from the White House today one with political overtones and announced it will not issue layoff notices to thousands of employees just days before the November presidential election.How sweet it would be if Mitt Romney would bring this up at the first debate and kindly inform the public that their job literally is at stake in this election.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:14:51 AM PDT
by
manovark
To: Army Air Corps
Maybe the families’ uncertainty will backfire on Obama.
To: dead
Yep. Make your list up now. Think local. Act local.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:17:39 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(I'll take over the Mormon over the Moron any day!)
To: manovark
Do you think Romney will stop those cuts in Jan?
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:19:03 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: kevslisababy
so they will still be laid off, just not notified in accordance with the law? Yes.
On the bright side, the obama administration will pay any fees, penalties and legal expenses Lockheed-Martin would be subject to as a result of violating the WARN Act.
On the brighter side, your tax dollars will cover it.
On the brightest side, L-M just landed a fat radar maintenance contract in North Carolina.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:20:00 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: castowell
Fascism is as fascism does.
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:20:40 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: dead
Is this finally the outrage that is TOO blatant for the likes of the NYTimes, ABC, MSNBC, to ignore?You made a funny!
Not bad, not bad at all!
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posted on
10/02/2012 9:21:13 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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