Posts tagged temporary layoffs
Oshkosh Corporation confirms voluntary, temporary layoff for union employees due to overstaffing
June 13, 2025 // Military vehicle manufacturer, Oshkosh Corporation, has offered temporary three-month layoffs to union members in response to overstaffing. The decision was made in the wake of a planned reduction in production of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles. The voluntary layoff program gives workers an excused, unpaid leave of absence. Benefits would continue and they would be guaranteed a return after the 30 days.
State workers blast Ferguson’s furlough plan, calling it a betrayal
March 20, 2025 // Front-line workers and educators feel betrayed and frustrated that the man they helped elect wants to reduce their income while declining to endorse new or higher taxes on the state’s wealthiest individuals and largest corporations. “They feel they were lied to. We have to stop being the ones having the budgets balanced on our backs,” said Mike Yestramski, president of the Washington Federation of State Employees, following a rally Monday at the Capitol held by those pushing the Legislature to tax the wealthy and big businesses to erase the multi-billion dollar deficit. Yestramski called Ferguson a “pseudo Democrat” and added: “Budgets are moral documents. This is his moral test.