Energy costs are part of what is killing the place where I work.
That is part of the reason but not the only one where a couple hundred or so are going to get the cut next year. A new processing plant is being built that will be automated to the nth degree.
Most are going to be the hourly people but a segment of the salaried types are up for targeting. The announcement for voluntary separation applications came out Friday.
A couple of hundred middle management personnel are getting the axe at my sister-in-law’s company.
The Obama economy seems to be designed to shrink the US labor force.