The sackings devastated those directly affected, but broad cuts to pay and hours hurt everybody's morale.
Sixty lay employees were sacked, and five officials resigned in protest at their sackings.
Mr Gonzales is under pressure because of the allegedly politically motivated sackings of federal prosecutors.
The current spate of sackings by President Islam Karimov has made such posts seem less secure.
One was issued on the day a Public Accounts Committee report questioned the circumstances of the sackings.
The first meeting of unions and management since the sackings began at 1600 BST on Tuesday in London.
Some of these sackings were said by the government to have been necessary because of allegations of corruption.
In March Congress began an investigation in to the reasons for the sackings.
Businessmen admit in private that they have postponed sackings in order to avoid boosting the left-wing vote, says Prof Weidenfeld.
Perhaps, indeed, the sackings mark the end of revolution and the beginning of government and maybe a new determination to take on corruption.
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Maria Ward, Peter Connelly's social worker at Haringey Council in north London, and Gillie Christou, her manager, are appealing against their sackings.
However, he insisted that he did not consider ministerial departures from office as sackings "because they are part of life in politics".
As another season of annual general meetings approaches, the shareholder revolts and executive sackings that used to accompany such occasions are a fading memory.
He has begun with some well-publicised sackings, and by calling out the army to fight an epidemic of dengue fever in Rio de Janeiro.
But there are some sackings she seems positively to have relished.
Indeed, other high-profile arrests and sackings have taken place this year.
"We are ready to negotiate salary cuts and increased productivity, but we don't want outright sackings, " said Jose Carillo, a spokesman of the main CCOO union.
When Mr Duncan Smith named Barry Legg as not just Mr MacGregor's successor, but also his chief of staff, the reason for the sackings became clearer.
That went against Ms Rousseff's express wishes, and was a defiant challenge to Mr Palocci, who had threatened the party with ministerial sackings should its deputies rebel.
Within weeks of his arrival he had asked all senior police officers for letters describing themselves and proposing new ideas, and used these to guide a burst of promotions, reassignments and sackings.
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But union leaders say it will mean hundreds of arbitrary sackings, a version that has been vehemently denied by the Peruvian government but that has been carefully used by union leaders to manipulate the teachers to march.
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Captain Buzinov claimed to have predicted at least three senior sackings last year, together with various terrorist acts in the north Caucasus, the crash of an army transport plane in Siberia and the ups and downs of President Boris Yeltsin's health.
It would be unfair to draw too many broad conclusions from the unfinished story of Madonna's own philanthropic involvement in Malawi - a tale complete with law suits, sackings, an angry sister of the president, allegations of theft, and several thousand girls benefiting from an education they might otherwise never have received.
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