On the same day, the firm announced it was cutting 270 jobs at a facility in Leeds, with the possibility that some of the workers could be relocated to Cardiff.

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But also such leaders must navigate between the lesser of two bad options, e.g. closing a facility, laying off employees or cutting wages and salaries.

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O'Leary joined the board of an Energy Department contractor to whom she appears to have thrown a sweetheart deal -- keeping steady its remuneration for providing security at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility in Colorado -- but cutting the security workforce the firm was responsible for paying to do that job.

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We have created an advanced battery manufacturing facility -- facilities right here in the United States that are going to allow us to maintain that cutting edge.

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