Many of the laid-off workers had taken out loans for their children's college tuition, but they found it impossible to pay back the loans immediately.
"The growing army of laid-off workers demands an expansion of the private economy, " says Zhong Pengrong, director of the Beijing Prospect Consultancy, an advocate of private enterprise.
The anger of laid-off workers has long been one of officialdom's biggest worries.
Mr Zhu has read the riot act to inefficient state enterprises, where the number of laid-off workers is rising dramatically.
Much of the money made by the state firms is being soaked up by payments for welfare functions, including the wages of laid-off workers.
Tom Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said that given the financial turmoil, it was "remarkable" that the 3, 000 current and laid-off workers represented by the union will still have retirement benefits.
Those legacy costs and the GM dole, called the Jobs Bank for laid-off GM workers, drain billions from the company.
What Mr. Roche leaves out is the enormous impact that outsourcing to China will have on world labor markets, the massive displacement that this will cause, and thus the offsetting negative effect--due to decreases in demand from laid-off workers in other parts of the world--on price deflation in consumer-goods markets.
But the best hope for many laid-off workers is that their governments will intervene less in the economy, not more.
The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
Moreover, they are in no hurry to agree to a new law, since they think the woes of exporters, and their laid-off workers, can only help them at the polls.
Prior to the subsidy, Salerno says, 20 percent to 25 percent of laid-off workers at the company continued their insurance under COBRA. "We're running close to 50 percent now, " he says.
And across the country, GM plans to hire back every single one of its laid-off workers by the end of the year -- every single one.
Again, the high-status participants were perceived as much more empathic and attentive toward the laid off workers than were the control group and the high-power managers.
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Earlier this week, Blagojevich was in the news again -- standing beside and supporting the workers suddenly laid off at the Chicago window factory.
In fact, the coalition estimates that only about 500 shallow-water workers have been laid off as a result of the permitting slowdown.
Besides negatively impacting property values, the mushrooming tax burden will force some people fixed-income senior citizens, laid-off workers, working moms and dads at the economic margins out of their homes.
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Because of the grant that went to this company, we can hear the sounds of machines humming and people doing their work, instead of just the ghostly silence of an emptied-out building and the memory of workers who were laid off a long time ago.
The bleak unemployment picture has sent many laid-off workers looking for internships that might lead to full-time jobs.
Also, Republicans seem to be concerned that Democrats will try to add too many new programs to any stimulus package designed to bolster the economy, and Democrats are already saying the president's proposals to help laid-off workers don't go far enough.
Spearheading the turnaround was a major cost-cutting initiative, as the company closed underperforming stores and laid off 280 workers.
Those infrastructure projects could employ a lot of construction workers -- including a lot of Latino construction workers -- who were laid off after the housing bubble burst.
Yet such schemes allowed laid-off workers to sell the products of reputable firms such as Amway, an American maker of consumer goods, with a passion.
Its leaders need at least 7% annual growth, they reckon, to continue to create enough jobs to absorb surplus rural labour and the workers laid off by state-owned enterprises.
Today, there are factories in Iowa where once laid-off workers are back on the job building wind towers, building wind blades.
The committee option worked in 1984 for 18, 000 laid-off workers of Ames Department Stores.
In the city itself, where much of Kodak's laid-off industrial workers still live, unemployment in October was running at 9.6% on a nonseasonally adjusted basis.
The key to that should be a recent deal over payments to laid-off workers.
But GM has fired or laid-off over tens of thousands of workers since the beginning of the recession.
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