12.08.2008 4:51 pm
Nixon pledges to help laid off Brewery workers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Gov. elect Jay Nixon has weighed on in the layoffs at Anheuser-Busch InBev, that will see 1,400 layoffs company wide, with three-fourths of them in St. Louis.
Nixon said “our thoughts and prayers” are with the workers and their families.
“As these workers and their families face the challenges ahead, we will be standing right by their side. The men and women at A-B are not just highly skilled professionals, but they’re also invaluable members of the St. Louis community,” Nixon said. “During these difficult economic times, we’ll work tirelessly to find new jobs and new opportunities for these folks right here in Missouri. Turning this economy around won’t be easy, but it starts by putting Missourians back to work.”
Headline rather misleading. Where is the pledge exactly? Am assuming Nixon will work tirelessly with all Missourians laid off thanks to this economy, not only AB workers.
It will be interesting to see if some of the workers he plans to help from the drug pushing god AB will simply be outsourced at lower salaries. AB can’t run their technical departments by cutting so many from IT. Middle management fluff they can stand to lose. AB was slow to pay their bills when we contracted tech workers to them, even though they were bringing in the big bucks. Some management folks were horrible, lazy phychos and some were good workers. Let’s not forget all workers who need help and not just give help to the alcohol pushers. Many of those cut were very highly paid, so I can’t cry for them. I do weep for the eight dollar an hour workers being increasingly asked to subsidize well paid workers with good bennies with incompetent management.
Hey Jay, have you ever done a study as to how much the use of alcohol costs us…REALLY costs us? I think not having the drug pushers would cost us all less money and lives. Like casinos, it’s a negative sum game for society. Have the nuts to get rid of all of it boy wonder.
Slugger, drink a milk and cool off. Beer is legal..get over it.
The $8 an hour employee was hard to find unless you went to the AB soccer park and asked the concession workers. AB paid all their people well and there were more good managers than lousy ones..you know not what you speak.
Take a look at today’s Post on the front page. How ironic: AB is laying off workers and the high school drop out level “spikes to 22%”. Any bets your highschool dropouts will be begging for my tax dollars and whining about their $8.00 an hour wage in a few years?
Obama, Nixon, and Slay will do nothing for white collar workers except increase taxes on the companies that hire them.
People always hate to talk about when they are laid off. But as it has become every day’s news headline since Yahoo started it with cutting 1500 of its task force last year, now a need of platform has been in demand where people can express their selves in words how they are feeling about their company, whey the got laid off was that justified or not.
And every thing they want to tell anonymously.And http://www.layoffgossip.com is providing you that platform.