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New York MTA Warns of 40% Subway-Bus Cut, Shedding 9,300 Jobs

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to eliminate 9,367 jobs and drastically cut back subway, bus and train services that are vital to the...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/new-york-mta-eyes-9-367-layoffs-as-agency-waits-for-federal-aid?srnd=markets-vp

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Contra Costa implements new Layoff Aversion Grants for ...

CONCORD, CA – The Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa County is now accepting applications for layoff aversion grants through its Small-Business...

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Contra Costa implements new Layoff Aversion Grants for small business

CONCORD, CA – The Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa County is now accepting applications for layoff aversion grants through its Small-Business Grant Program, providing up to $5,000 in assistance for micro-businesses within Contra Costa County.

Priority will be given to these types of veteran-, woman- and minority-owned micro-businesses: retail, restaurants, hair salons, barber shops, nail salons, day spas and fitness studios. Also, priority will be given to businesses that have not received any COVID-19 related grants, such as the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) or city grants.

Home-based businesses are not eligible for the grant, which is intended for physical, commercial storefronts.

Grant funds cannot be used for mortgage payments, payroll or employee support services, such as rent, childcare or transportation. Purchases must be made after the date of the signed executed award agreement. Funding is provided from the U.S. Department of Labor Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and are subject to WIOA regulations and allowable cost expenses.

The deadline to apply for the grant is Dec. 2, 2020, at 5 p.m., with no exceptions. Applications may be submitted online or mailed to WDBCCC, 4071 Port Chicago, Concord, CA 94520 and must be received no later than the deadline. Award/agreement letters will be emailed to the email address on the application by Dec. 9, 2020.

To learn more about the grant, visit our website, call the WDBCCC COVID-19 Resource Hotline at 833-320-1919 or email bouncebackcoco@ehsd.cccounty.us.

Southwest Air Expands Layoff Threat With Warning to More ...

  • to shave $500 million from labor costs and avoid the first involuntary layoffs in its 49-year history. The airline expects the mechanics and other employees to be...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/southwest-air-expands-layoff-threat-with-warning-to-more-workers

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Layoffs, facility closures hit the City of Boise as COVID-19 resurges

Layoffs, facility closures hit the City of Boise as COVID-19 resurges. Boise City Hall. Photo: Don Day/BoiseDev. COVID-19. By Margaret Carmel. November 18...

https://boisedev.com/news/2020/11/18/city-of-boise-closures-layoffs/

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Layoffs, facility closures hit the City of Boise as COVID-19 go up

The City of Boise will once again shutter many facilities to try and slow the spread of COVID-19.

These closures will remain in place through at least January 15, according to an email to city staff from Mayor Lauren McLean obtained by BoiseDev.

This is similar to the city’s operations during stage two of its reopening plan in April and May. Boise Public Libraries will remain open for curbside service and will make computers available by appointment.

Other closures include Idaho IceWorld, the Boise Senior Center and the Boise Municipal Pools until at least summer 2021.

Safety wasn’t the only reason for the closures. McLean said in her email the “budget implications” of operating all of the city’s facilities also played a role. Due to the closures, “a handful” of city employees were laid off. She did not specify the department or the number of employees let go.

We asked City spokesman Seth Ogilve to confirm the moves and provide a number of positions affected. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is the latest in a series of budget tightening moves in recent months, including pulling out of a mobility collaborative, reducing the rate of employee raises, trimming maintenance and operations spending, and more. The city said it would shed $34 million from its budget this year over the previous year, and elected not to raise the base rate of property taxes on existing homes and businesses.

Vestas Announces Layoffs In January 2021

(CBS4)– Vestas, the wind turbine company based in Brighton, announced layoffs of 185 people just after the start of the new year. (credit: CBS). The company sent...

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/11/18/vestas-wind-turbine-brighton-layoffs/

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Vestas Announces Layoffs In January 2021

BRIGHTON, Colo. (CBS4)– Vestas, the wind turbine company based in Brighton, announced layoffs of 185 people just after the start of the new year.

The company sent a letter to the Colorado Department of Labor stating that the layoffs would happen Jan. 17 2021, according to the Brighton Standard Blade.

Vestas is one of the largest employers in Brighton, with a staff of more than 3,400 that produces more than 1,000 blades yearly.

Job cuts news / Lexmark laying off workers in Lexington, elsewhere

Lexmark, which is one of Lexington's largest private employers with 1,400 workers, has begun layoffs nationwide. And some of those will come in Lexington.

https://www.wtvq.com/2020/11/18/lexmark-laying-off-workers-in-lexington-elsewhere/

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Bad, bad, bad.... Tyson Foods Accused Of Betting Money On How Many Workers Would Contract COVID-19

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tyson-foods-iowa-wrongful-death-lawsuit-betting-accusation-coronavirus_n_5fb5f1f7c5b664958c7d9414

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Tyson Foods Accused Of Betting Money On How Many Workers Would Contract COVID-19

A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections at Tyson Foods’ largest pork processing plant accuses the meatpacking giant of ordering employees to come to work while supervisors privately bet money on how many would get infected with the deadly coronavirus.

The family of Isidro Fernandez filed the lawsuit in August saying that Fernandez was exposed to the virus when he reported for work at the Tyson plant in Waterloo, Iowa. Fernandez died in April from COVID-19 complications, leaving behind a wife and children, according to the lawsuit.

Fernandez was one of at least five Waterloo plant employees who died of the virus. More than 1,000 workers ― over a third of the facility’s workforce ― became infected, according to the Black Hawk County Health Department. The lawsuit, filed in Black Hawk County, claims Tyson is guilty of a “willful and wanton disregard for workplace safety” and accuses the company of endangering employees by downplaying virus concerns and covering up the outbreak in order to keep them working.

As first reported by the Iowa Capital Dispatch, the lawsuit was recently amended to include new allegations against the company and plant officials. One of them is that supervisors at the Waterloo plant began wagering money on how many workers would get COVID-19.

Another new allegation reportedly details how upper-level plant manager John Casey explicitly told supervisors to continue showing up to work even if they were experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, referring to the deadly virus as a “glorified flu” and telling workers “everyone is going to get it.” According to the lawsuit, Casey stopped a sick supervisor on their way to getting tested and ordered them back to work, saying, “You have a job to do.” Managers reportedly allowed one employee who vomited on the production line to continue working and return to work the next day, according to the suit.

Tyson Foods did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. The company has previously said that it denies the original allegations, moving the lawsuit to federal court on claims that it remained open because of President Donald Trump’s April order requiring plants to stay open in order to maintain the nation’s meat supply.

The Tyson plant eventually did close after reports that it fueled a massive coronavirus outbreak in Waterloo. More than 180 infections were linked to the plant at the time of closure, according to the Black Hawk County Health Department. The plant employs 2,800 workers.

Workers at poultry and meat processing plants usually work right alongside each other, but public health experts have been advising that people stay at least 6 feet apart. Employees in these plants, including Fernandez, are also predominantly people of color and immigrants who are doing hard labor for low pay. Workers report a higher injury rate than the rest of the private sector, and advocates have said that the hazards are almost always worse than numbers suggest.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance at the beginning of the pandemic recommending that meatpacking companies put up physical barriers, enforce social distancing and install more hand-sanitizing stations, among other steps. But the guidance is not mandatory and is mostly unenforceable.

Goldman Sachs' latest layoffs: how worried should you be?

The firm has made a decision to move forward with a modest number of layoffs.” Which category does this fall into? Goldman doesn't appear to want to add to this...

https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3004846/goldman-sachs-job-cuts

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  • Morning Coffee: Goldman Sachs’ latest layoffs - how worried should you be? Christmas is cancelled for London bankers
In the current environment it’s often uncertain whether any announcement of job cuts represents a new round, an already announced round, the resumption of a program that was put on hold due to the pandemic, or just business-as-usual cuts with no implications for overall redundancies.  According to Goldman Sachs, quoted by Bloomberg yesterday, “At the outbreak of the pandemic, the firm announced that it would suspend any job reductions […] The firm has made a decision to move forward with a modest number of layoffs.”  Which category does this fall into?
Goldman doesn’t appear to want to add to this public statement, which marks the second time it's made a round of job cuts in three months. Compared to the earlier round in September it appears that these latest layoffs might be “new, but not new-new”.  - They’re most likely marginal extra cuts above the 400-odd that were announced three months ago (which in turn came after a “handful” of cuts in March).  But they don’t seem to have the kind of shape to them which might justify a reappraisal of the broader trends in hiring policy at Goldman itself, let alone a read-through to other banks. Anyone worried that this heralds an avalanche of cuts can probably breathe a sigh of relief.
  • For one thing, the numbers still seem small – Bloomberg thinks that the current round is smaller than the September round.  That would put the total number of jobs at risk this time round at less than 1% of the workforce.  Added to which, the coronavirus hiatus means that Goldman didn’t make anywhere near the usual cut of underperformers back in March, so there may be a small but measurable percentage of people still employed who wouldn’t have been in more normal conditions.

But more importantly, a certain level of staff cuts had to have been baked into expectations simply because to will the effect is to will the cause.  Goldman Sachs set an expenses reduction target of $1bn in January, which it remains committed to.  Investment banks only really spend serious money on three things – employees, technology and office space.  Goldman is certainly not cutting tech budgets, and hypothetical “remote working dividends” were not part of the outlook in January, so the baseline assumption has always been that personnel costs are going to deliver the savings.

This doesn’t mean overall reduction in numbers (as of September, GS headcount was up 8% versus 2019).  But it does mean that the mix will change, with Marcus retail banking staff bringing the average compensation down.  Back- and middle-office staff in highly paid roles in New York and London are likely to be cut as the Indian technology campus grows in importance and hubs like Dallas gain roles.
All of which is to say that given the strategic direction of Goldman under David Solomon, news of aggregate numbers of job cuts don’t necessarily mean very much.  There are just too many moving parts.  The same is true of a lot of banks, particularly as plans made earlier in the year may have been reassessed.  It’s probably better to trust the grapevine and your instincts at this point in the cycle rather than the newswires.
Elsewhere, it looks as if any Hollywood scriptwriters in search of ideas for the perfect “coronavirus romcom” premis are going to have to look somewhere other than the London investment banks.  Christmas parties have been on the way out for a few years as management gets less and less tolerant of the reputational, compliance and harassment risks – one fintech firm has always had “these Christmas parties where everyone gets one drink”.  Now, with bars and restaurants currently on lockdown, and groups of more than six unlikely to be permitted when they open up, the festive season is being officially cancelled.
The replacement celebrations all seem pretty forlorn.  Although some banks have suggested carol services held over Zoom, you can’t actually do that – the lags in the system are too great – so they’re reduced to asking the staff choir to make recordings and edit them together.  A few firms are using the party budget to send everyone “a small gift” (very likely to be undistributed promotional swag).  And the fintech which used to hold the one-drink rave ups?  They’ve decided that “we’ve had a productive year, so everyone’s morale is pretty high anyway”, and therefore won’t bother. Bah humbug.

Media Coverage: ViacomCBS Hit With Another Round Of Layoffs -- Another 100 Jobs Cut

A person familiar with the situation said some 100 staffers are impacted across the combined company, primarily but not entirely in corporate roles and including...

https://deadline.com/2020/11/viacomcbs-hit-another-round-of-layoffs-100-jobs-cut-across-combined-company-1234617906/

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ViacomCBS Hit With Another Round Of Layoffs; 100 Jobs Cut Across Combined Company

ViacomCBS has been hit with another round of job cuts as layoffs and restructuring continue across big media and entertainment companies.
A person familiar with the situation said some 100 staffers are impacted across the combined company, primarily but not entirely in corporate roles and including finance and ad sales. The move is part of a streamlining and cost-cutting push announced when Viacom and CBS merged last December. The layoffs started early in the year and there have been several rounds.
In May, ViacomCBS initiated a round of post-merger layoffs across all parts of the company but primarily hitting divisions within the CBS Entertainment Group. The was was part of a restructuring of various operations at CBS as part of the integration with Viacom, as well as  nod to changes in the business including those related to COVID-19.
ViacomCBS, led by CEO Bob Bakish has targeted $750 million in synergies from the combination. In a New York state filing in May, the company said it had eliminated 450 positions. That has risen as the year progressed.
Layoffs are rampant across the industry from AT&T-owned WarnerMedia to Walt Disney to Comcast’s NBCUniversal, where the latest round of layoffs started today.

MGM Springfield ups layoff estimate; places blame on COVID-19 restrictions

MGM Springfield ups layoff estimate; places blame on COVID-19 restrictions. Updated Nov 13, 2020; Posted Nov 13, 2020. Facebook Share. Twitter Share.

https://www.masslive.com/mgmspringfield/2020/11/mgm-springfield-ups-layoff-estimate-places-blame-on-covid-19-restrictions.html

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Kansas City businesses, restaurants nervous about effects of new COVID-19 restrictions

  • at Messenger Coffee Company, said in March he had to layoff 120 employees.... He isn't sure if the new guidelines will cause a second round of layoffs, but...

https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-city-businesses-restaurants-nervous-about-effects-of-new-covid-19-restrictions/

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Potbelly is going belly up in Chicago

But it said it was planning corporate layoffs to stem the bleeding and reduce costs by up to $4 million. Potbelly had 406 company-owned units and 46 franchised...

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/potbelly-facing-eviction-its-headquarters

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Potbelly is facing eviction from its headquarters

Potbelly Corp. is at risk of being evicted from its headquarters in downtown Chicago, after failing to pay more than $800,000 in rent and other fees, according to court documents.

Potbelly’s landlord, 111 N. Canal Realty Holdco, LLC, has taken the struggling sandwich chain to court, seeking to evict the company from its 27,000 square feet on the building’s eighth floor and to force it to pay its back rent and legal fees, according to documents filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County last month.

The case is set for a status conference on Dec. 4, plaintiff’s attorney Eric Kaplan said. By then, Kaplan said he expects Potbelly will owe close to $900,000.

A Potbelly representative did not respond to a Restaurant Business request for comment on the eviction case.

But, in court documents, Potbelly cited several reasons why it should not be kicked out of its headquarters.

First, the chain noted an eviction moratorium in Chicago, which has repeatedly been extended by Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker.

“No eviction order entered herein against Potbelly could be enforced unless plaintiff proves that Potbelly poses a ‘direct threat to the health and safety of other tenants, an immediate and severe risk to property or [that Potbelly is in] violation of any applicable building code, health ordinance or similar regulation,’” Potbelly’s attorney wrote.

The chain said it did not foresee the pandemic when it entered into its lease in Sept. 2014.

Potbelly said it has been unable to use its headquarters due to federal, state and local orders, as well as government work-from-home advisories.

“Potbelly has not been able to use the space as intended or maintain normal business operations, including at its various restaurant locations,” the chain said in court documents.

Potbelly has seen massive traffic and sales declines amid the pandemic, especially as downtown office workers continue to work from home. In May, the fast casual said it might need to permanently shutter up to 100 stores. It stepped back from that projection earlier this month, revising that number down to 25 to 30 permanent closures.

But it said it was planning corporate layoffs to stem the bleeding and reduce costs by up to $4 million.

Potbelly had 406 company-owned units and 46 franchised ones at the end of Q3, down from 427 corporate units and 45 franchised stores the previous year.

Same-store sales for Q3 fell 21%. They rose a bit through October, declining 19.4%, the chain said. In Q2, Potbelly’s same-store sales were down 41.5%.

Late last week, the chain’s chief legal officer and chief people officer, who had been Potbelly for nearly 14 years, resigned.

In June, it was rumored that Potbelly would declare bankruptcy to get out of some of its leases and that it had hired restructuring consultants to aid in the process.

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Layoffs are expected

Anchorage School District projects $15 million loss
  • Superintendent Deena Bishop noted that while the district was able to avoid layoffs this school year, they will be harder to avoid in the coming years. “Moving...

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/11/17/anchorage-school-district-projects-15-million-loss-due-to-lowered-student-enrollment/

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Hennepin County Board amends proposed 2021 budget

"Today our organizing efforts paid off and county commissioners voted to stop layoffs of library workers," said Ali Fuhrman, president of AFSCME Local 2822,...

https://www.startribune.com/hennepin-county-board-amends-proposed-2021-budget-to-reopen-8-libraries-next-year/573096071/

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Oregon’s unemployment rate falls to 6.9%, but coronavirus ‘freeze’ could bring fresh layoffs

Oregon's unemployment rate falls to 6.9%, but coronavirus 'freeze' could bring fresh layoffs. Updated 10:31 AM; Today 10:31 AM. Facebook Share. Twitter Share.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/11/oregons-unemployment-rate-falls-to-69-but-coronavirus-freeze-could-bring-fresh-layoffs.html

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Wabash Manufacturing to Close Kosciusko County Plant

Wabash Valley says it expects to begin layoffs on January 15 and should be completed by March 19. The company says there is no union representation at the...

https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/42918522/wabash-manufacturing-to-close-kosciusko-county-plant

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Wabash Manufacturing to Close Kosciusko County Plant

A Kosciusko County manufacturing plant that produces commercial grade park benches, picnic tables, and trash receptacles says it is shutting down operations and will lay off about 80 employees.
Wabash Valley Manufacturing LLC in Silver Lake has notified the state it is closing the plant and will start layoffs in January.

The company says it is closing in large part due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations. The company says it serves park departments, amusement parks, and restaurants.

Wabash Valley says it expects to begin layoffs on January 15 and should be completed by March 19.

The company says there is no union representation at the plant, so there are also no bumping rights.

40% of BART staff in danger?

BART avoids station closures, weekend shutdowns but could lose up to 40% of staff
... its workforce by as much as 40% as the agency tries to avert layoffs, though it... mostly bus drivers, in January — the first mass layoff by a local transit agency.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-avoids-station-closures-weekend-shutdowns-15731440.php

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Layoffs or not?

St. Louis treasurer says alderman is stalling loan, will cause layoffs. Jacob Barker; Nov 16, 2020; 11 hrs ago; 0 · Get 70% off a subscription. St. Louis parking...

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-treasurer-says-alderman-is-stalling-loan-will-cause-layoffs/article_1dc5afc1-ab1e-5242-9b05-4fb90e062729.html

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Blue-Collar Unions Fear Widespread Layoffs in Silicon Valley

Blue-Collar Unions Fear Widespread Layoffs in Silicon Valley. Laid off cafeteria workers will lead a protest outside Verizon Media CEO's San Francisco house on...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vn9w/blue-collar-unions-fear-widespread-layoffs-in-silicon-valley

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Blue-Collar Unions Fear Widespread Layoffs in Silicon Valley

In September, 120 cafeteria workers and baristas who work at Yahoo's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California were laid off by their employer, a subcontractor called Eurest—stranding them without paychecks or health insurance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, dozens of those workers will protest outside the San Francisco home of the Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan, and drop off letters demanding an extension of their healthcare coverage and pay (Verizon Media owns Yahoo). Though these workers are technically not employed by  Verizon Media, the decision to lay off the cafeteria workers was ultimately made by the company, which like most Silicon Valley tech companies contracts out its blue-collar labor.
"I want the engineers and people who made this decision to put themselves in our shoes," Alma Cardenas, one of the laid off baristas who helped organize Tuesday's protest and worked at the campus for six years until her termination in September, told Motherboard in Spanish. "I am a single mom  who supports my two daughters, and my mother in Guadalajara. It's not fair for them to kick us out while they make billions of dollars. For them, what we make is nothing."

The action outside Gowrappan's house comes days after the labor campaign Silicon Valley Rising released a report about how the contracted shuttle bus drivers, janitors, cooks, and baristas at the world's largest tech companies have fared during the pandemic while white collar employees have been working from home. As the report explains, Google and Facebook committed early in the pandemic to paying and providing their unionized service workers health insurance—despite shutting down or limiting access to their corporate campuses. This agreement largely set the course for tech companies around Silicon Valley who followed suit and kept their workers on payroll.

But it's unclear how long this will last. In recent weeks, according to a SEIU United Service Workers West spokesperson, Oracle and Samsung have started terminating contracted union janitors. Lyft laid 63 contracted janitors via text message in September. In March and April, Tesla laid off roughly 280 contracted janitors and shuttle bus drivers, leaving many without health care. The impacts of these layoffs disproportionately affect Black and brown workers. According to the report, 63 percent of unionized tech service workers in Silicon Valley are either Black or Latinx. The numbers are highest in janitorial and cafeteria work. Meanwhile just four percent of Silicon Valley software developers are Black or Latinx.

These recent layoffs have translated into widespread fear among the 14,000 unionized service workers who serve Silicon Valley tech companies. According to the report, tech service workers worry that other companies could soon follow in the footsteps of Yahoo/Verizon Media.

"I’m worried about getting laid off. That fear is always there. You never know what's going to happen," Marcial Delgado, a single father of three kids, who has worked as a line cook at Nvidia's corporate campus in Santa Clara, California for the past 20 years, told Motherboard.

These fears are in part pacified by the fact that many of Silicon Valley's blue-collar tech workers have unionized in the first place. Since 2015, more than 9,000 blue-collar tech workers in Silicon Valley have unionized, according to the report. Last year, 2,300 Google cafeteria workers at campuses around Silicon Valley voted to form a union. In 2017, around 500 cafeteria workers at Facebook's Menlo Park offices unionized with Unite Here Local 19, and thousands of security guards at Facebook, Cisco and other tech companies voted to join SEIU United Service Workers West. An earlier wave of unionization in Silicon Valley organized by SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign in the 1990s brought some 5,000 tech industry janitors in the Silicon Valley under union contracts, according to the report.

Liliana Morales, a prep cook originally from Acapulco, Mexico who prepared sandwiches and salads for tech employees at Facebook's corporate offices for six years, said her working conditions drastically improved after workers unionized with Unite Here Local 19 in 2017. The union negotiated a five-year contract with her employer Flagship Facilities Services that included $4.75 per hour raises, health insurance, and a pension plan.

"Things are much better. The union fights for us. We have better wages in every department. Before we didn’t have health insurance but now we do," said Morales, who lives in East Palo Alto with her three kids and husband. "I make $22 an hour but it's still a struggle in this area because the rent has gotten so high over the past few years. It's difficult for our family. We have everything we need but we cannot save money or spend time with our family on vacation. It's just rent, food, and gasoline."

Many newly unionized workers, who were previously denied health insurance and pension plans, received substantial raises and medical and dental benefits. Union contracts for Silicon Valley security guards, cafeteria workers, and janitors in the tech industry cover 6,500 families and provide 12,000 workers access to healthcare, according to the Silicon Valley Rising report.

"We've been looking at tech service workers in Silicon Valley for several years," said Louise Auerhahn, the author of the new report and director of economic and workforce policy at Silicon Valley Rising, told Motherboard. "Our major finding has been that there's very strong occupational segregation in Silicon Valley. Black and Latinx and immigrant women do the majority of the physical work for tech companies but aren't actually employed by them. In recent years, many of those workers have been organizing and it's been very successful in lifting up the voices of contractors in Silicon Valley."

Meanwhile, many of the blue-collar tech workers who've already lost their jobs are facing the pandemic without healthcare and are on the verge of homelessness.

"When my daughters were little, we lived on the streets," Cardenas, the recently laid off Verizon-Yahoo barista who protested on Tuesday, told Motherboard. "The thing that terrifies me the most now is to have to live on the streets again when I can no longer pay my rent. I know lots of people [in Silicon Valley] who are living out of their cars right now."

With Napa civic center on hold, city looks toward refurbishing existing buildings

The city also paused discussions of layoffs with staff bargaining bodies, and city manager Potter affirmed in his Monday letter that Napa would not seek...

https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/with-napa-civic-center-on-hold-city-looks-toward-refurbishing-existing-buildings/article_a070506c-1d85-5a1c-a814-cfe2a54c3e5e.html

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(Ascena News) 6 Companies Announce Layoffs, Other Changes In Ohio

DAYTON, OH — Three medical facilities and three businesses in Ohio have announced layoffs so far this month. The Premier Health group has announced it is...

https://patch.com/ohio/across-oh/6-companies-announce-layoffs-other-changes-ohio

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6 Companies Announce Layoffs, Other Changes In Ohio

Three medical facilities in Ohio are transitioning some of their departments to another firm.

DAYTON, OH — Three medical facilities and three businesses in Ohio have announced layoffs so far this month.

The Premier Health group has announced it is shuttering its environmental and nutritional services departments at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, the Premier Health Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, and the Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy, according to filings with the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.

However, Premier Health said in filings that all impacted employees will be offered a job with another firm that will offer environmental and nutritional services to the impacted communities (Dayton, Middletown, Troy).

The Ascena Retail group filings suggest some employees will get extended time with the company before their layoffs become effective.

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Hilltop Residential anticipates growth even during a pandemic

Even when the pandemic forced widespread shutdowns, the real estate investment company, deemed an essential business, made it through without layoffs.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Hilltop-Residential-anticipates-growth-even-15711024.php

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New broom at Hitachi Vantara sweeps away two top execs ...

This reorg was completed in January and a big round of layoffs ensued. Blocks & Files would be unsurprised if Hitachi V sees a declining need for in-house...

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/11/12/hitachi-vantara-leadership-team/

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MEDIA: MERGER IN WORKS?

DirecTV, Dish TV May Take Another Whack At Merger 11/12 ...

WarnerMedia is expecting layoffs, anywhere from 5% to 7% – around 1,200 to 1,750. Disneyland looks to make more theme parks layoffs, due to being unable...

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357742/directv-dish-tv-may-take-another-whack-at-merger.html

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The whole media ecosystem is rumbling.
First up, content providers on the move – which are making drastic changes.

WarnerMedia is expecting layoffs, anywhere from 5% to 7% – around 1,200 to 1,750. Disneyland looks to make more
theme parks layoffs, due to being unable to open in full or part.

On the merger front: There are talks about another possible merger attempt among two major satellite TV pay TV services – DirecTV and Dish Network. Now,
years after being a major force in pay TV, both have been witnessing hard times, due to lower subscribers.

Cable TV-centric companies like Comcast and Charter have had similar issues – those
companies also have had a still booming broadband business. Added to this are companies' efforts around mobile phone business.

DirecTV and Dish Network don’t sell any of the latter – and
that is a major problem for consumers looking for a full package of communications/interconnectitvy.

In 1992, both DirecTV and Dish Network first mulled a merger. The U.S. Justice Department put its kibosh on that deal, due to anti-trust concerns. But in 2020, it’s a different story,
what with strong OTT/CTV growth and virtual pay TV providers and/or services that provide programming apps.

Competition is everywhere. A DirecTV/Dish marriage is coming.

“Make no
mistake, whether it's a year from now, or 10 years from now. I believe it's inevitable those companies go together,” Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish said recently.

All of which may make
you wonder – why don't big cablers, Comcast, Charter, Altice, and the rest consider selling their pay TV video services – those traditional cable TV systems?

In part, because money is still
being made – in terms of revenue, growth in the average rate per month a users pays, and positive cash flow. And, more importantly, those companies continue to find way to package other services,
broadband, mobile with cable video subscription.

Still, at some point, one would believe traditional pay TV cable's interest in keeping these high-priced 200, 300 or more channel services aloft
will lose gravity. Perhaps if and when other related communications/media businesses grow, or cord-cutting ramps up from 5% to 8% per year to say 15%.

Does all this mean waiting for the cable TV
repair man finally gets cut as well?

Wayne Friedman is West Coast Editor of MediaPost. You can reach Wayne at wayne@mediapost.com.