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French Students Snub Offer for Jobs Talks
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mar 25 6:01 PM
PARIS (AP) - Students on Saturday boycotted France's prime minister's invitation for talks about a contested jobs law making it easier to fire young workers, bringing a threatened nationwide strike a step closer. The law lets companies dismiss workers under 26 without cause during their first two years on the job - a provision the government hopes will encourage employers to hire younger workers Save to My Web

New Quicken Loans Facility To Bring 300 Jobs To Cleveland
Cleveland - NewsNet5 via Yahoo! News - Mar 23 10:56 AM
The company founded by Cavs majority owner Dan Gilbert is opening a new center in Cleveland that will bring more than 300 jobs to northeast Ohio.Save to My Web

Protests over French jobs law turn violent
USA Today - Mar 23 6:56 PM
Demonstrators hurled chunks of concrete at police, who responded with tear gas Thursday as protest marches over a contested jobs law again erupted into violence. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and union leaders, meanwhile, agreed to meet for the first time in the standoff.Save to My Web

Russell Stover factory to cut jobs
Lawrence Journal-World - Mar 26 1:03 AM
Cookeville, Tenn. Russell Stover Candies has announced another string of layoffs at its 30-year-old Cookeville chocolate factory, which is being turned into a warehouse.Save to My Web

Didn't want to change the world, just wanted to work on computers
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Steve Wozniak says he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs. He just wanted to build computers. Oh, and he really -- really -- wanted to spend his career as a Hewlett-Packard engineer, a position he reluctantly left.Save to My Web

Bayer Plans to Cut 6,000 Jobs After Schering Purchase (Update2)
Bloomberg.com - Mar 24 4:58 AM
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bayer AG, Germany's biggest drug company, would eliminate 6,000 jobs after a 16.3 billion-euro ($19.5 billion) purchase of rival Schering AG. Schering shares rose on speculation of a higher offer for the company.Save to My Web

Mittal Weirton Workers Losing Jobs
WTOV 9 Steubenville - Mar 24 9:31 AM
Saturday, 450 steelworkers will join the 550 workers who have already lost their jobs.Save to My Web

FRENCH PM TOUTS COMPROMISE OVER YOUTH JOBS, UNIONS VOW PROTESTS
The Tocqueville Connection - Mar 25 7:10 AM
PARIS, March 25, 2006 (AFP) - French unions prepared on Saturday a new round of strikes and demonstrations for next week to protest aginst Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's youth jobs plan, as the premier hinted at hopes for compromise.Save to My Web

Buyout saves 70 jobs at Fawcetts retail arm
Yorkshire Post Today - Mar 25 12:45 AM
Ian Briggs SEVENTY jobs have been saved at a butcher's firm after the retail arm of the business was bought by its management. (25/03/2006 08:39:04)Save to My Web

How to Look at a Gift Horse
New York Times - Mar 25 1:38 PM
The offer by General Motors to pay workers to quit their jobs may sound like dream fulfilled to many people, but are the buyouts really a good deal?Save to My Web